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Reader Stories: How Have You Honored Women's History Month?

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Women's History Month is celebrated in March in the United States, October in Canada. International Women's Day is March 8. These can be times to more publicly honor the role of women in national and world history. From organizing conferences to simply bringing in a cake to work, people have found many different ways to honor the event. Here's a place for you to share your ideas, experience, and plans so that others might be inspired to learn from them -- or to pick up ideas from the experience of others.

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Here We Go!

For the longest time, I have been asking myself "What do I want to be when I grow up?". First it was a doctor- that is what others seemed to want to hear. Then a dancer - I loved watching the Alvin A…More

What I Did for Women's History Month

I have been an actor and a writer for many years. I love research. Discovering facts and presenting them in entertaining and truthful ways has been very satisfying and I have never had a writer's blo…More

What I Want

I have been thinking about this for many years. Some of my business associates are the first women firefighters, first female lifeguards, and my sister was interviewed on national TV for being the fi…More

Any Time of the Year

One of the books I recommend is "Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters." The book, which was written by Andrea Davis Pinkney, focuses on ten women, from Sojourner Truth to Shirley Chi…More

Women Writers for Women's History Month

I did a lot of research on women writers for both plays, falling back on my PhD in English and my experience in teaching women's literature over the past several years. I got my students at Bitburg a…More

Women's History Month Luncheon

With a lot of help! Committee members include: Altrusa International, a Mary Kay director, the local NAACP representative, and staff from WESST in New Mexico (Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team),…More

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