In the month of March, many schools celebrate Women's History Month. In 1987, it was approved by Congress due to a petition by the National Women’s History Project. In America, it is very important to not just remember the men who made history, but also the women that did too.

Around the United States, many places are celebrating women's history in the month of March. Some of the programs that are helping are the Department of Women’s Studies, Project SURVIVE, Women’s Resource Center, Interdisciplinary Studies, Diversity Collaborative and much more.

Women did not get recognized until after the men left for the World War 2. Women took on the role of many jobs that men left when they went to war. Mrs. Lau said, “Woman's work isn't usually noticed unless it doesn't get done.” Sometimes women enjoyed the new roles and weren't eager to give them up when the war was over. “When I was little, I remember watching TV and seeing women lighting their bras on fire during a march.” said Mrs Fowler.

 

The trend of women moving into men's occupations began much earlier. Mary Anne Evans is a great example of someone a lot of people don’t  know. She was known by her pen name George Eliot because at the time, women could not publish books or novels. People didn’t  know Mary was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Just like her and others, women truly had potential that went unnoticed.