Welcome to Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month, and 8 March each year is International Women’s Day. Such an event begs the question, why are we celebrating women’s history, in particular? The sad answer is that, like Black and LGBTQ+ people, women have been systematically left out of recorded history or quietly erased from what was taught to future generations. Women have been among the great mathematicians, scientists, philosophers, and artists of history but very few of them are widely known. While Kitching (2021) comments that there has been movement towards redressing the balance and starting to give women from history greater prominence over the past 20 years, much more needs to be done to undo the centuries of distortion to which our received History has been subjected.

Find out more

• US Women’s History website – US cultural agencies join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
• March is Women’s History Month – the Historical Association.
• Women’s History Month 2022 – History.com.
• Women’s History Month workshops: actors describe the life of women during the two world wars – the Education Group.
• Women in History – English Heritage.

Get involved

• Book Women’s History Month events organised by the Government in the UK.
• Things to do during Women’s History Month (in the UK) – Women’s History Network.

References

Kitching, P. (2021, March 1). March is Women’s History Month. Historical Association. https://www.history.org.uk/historian/news/3922/march-is-womens-history-month