D3 is honored to celebrate and recognize Women's History Month. We join the in the celebration of the women of District 3, County of Santa Clara, and beyond focusing on providing healing and promoting hope.
Did you know? Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week*
Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women celebrated “Women’s History Week” in March 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year.
In 1980, a consortium of women’s groups and historians—led by the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women's History Alliance)—successfully lobbied for national recognition. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th, 1980, as National Women’s History Week.
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View Supervisor Otto Lee's news article.
