The 2023 theme for Women’s History Month is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”
Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978.
Since 1988, U.S. presidents have issued annual proclamations designating the month of March as Women’s History Month. We spend the month of March commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the often-overlooked vital role of women in history.
In March 2011, the Obama administration released a report, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, showing women’s status in the US in 2011 and how it had changed over time. This report was the first comprehensive federal report on women since the report produced by the Commission on the Status of Women in 1963. There have not been any updated reports since 2011.
The CANR DEI Committee will be spending the month of March highlighting women connected to agriculture and natural resources or environmental science fields.
Additional resources
- For other information about women in these fields, follow the USDA Blog or Twitter by joining the discussion using #womeninag.
- Cooperative Extension has a special community dedicated to connecting women in agriculture.
