Women's History Month Calendar
March 1st
Women’s History Month: In 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 Women's History Week across the country. By 1986, 14 states had declared the entire month of March Women's History Month, according to the Alliance. The following year, in March of 1987, activists were successful: They lobbied Congress to declare March Women's History Month.
March 2nd
The 2021 theme is “Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.” They will focus on women's political involvement and leadership.
March 3rd
The Right to Vote: “The 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, was signed into law on Aug. 26, 1920. However, it wasn't until 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, that discriminatory tactics such as literacy tests were outlawed, and all women could vote.”
March 4th
University Event: When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Dialogue with Patrisse Cullors
March 5th
USC Women’s Conference: Thrive Together
March 6th
USC Women’s Conference: Thrive Together
March 7th
Shirley Chisholm became the first African American congresswoman in 1968. Four years later, she became the first major-party Black candidate to make a bid for the U.S. presidency.
Week 2
March 8th
International Women’s Day
March 9th
Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
March 10th
Tarana Burke is a civil rights activist who was the original founder of the "Me Too" movement, which she started in 2006. It later became a global phenomenon that raised awareness about sexual harassment, abuse, and assault in society in 2017
March 11th
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honors twice. Her efforts with her husband Pierre led to the discovery of polonium and radium, and she championed the development of X-rays.
March 12th
In 2019, only 26% of STEM graduates were women.
March 13th
Mary Lou Retton was the first American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. At the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Retton achieved perfect scores in her final two events (the floor exercise and vault) to win a dramatic victory in the all-around exercises.
March 14th
Until Congress passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, women couldn't get credit cards in their own name.