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Women's History Month

2024 Women's History Month Recognitions

Theme - Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Celebrating the stories of women who have inspired and fought for equity, diversity and inclusion nationally, statewide, and locally

Tina Turner - Anna Marie Bullock

Michele Lew

Captain Michelle Asban

Isabel Allende

Megan Williams

Perla Flores

Marie Harrison

Judge Sharon Chatman

Wenda Fong

County Office of Women's Policy

International Women's Day

Dolly Parton

2023 Women's History Month Recognitions

Theme - Women Who Tell Our Stories
Celebrating the stories of these outstanding international, national, state, and local women

Serena Williams

Patsy Mink

Ellen Ochoa

Shirley Chisholm

Florence Jones

Nancy Pelosi

Laura Bush

Sandra Day O’Connor

Admiral Michelle Howard

Senator Tammy Duckworth

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Bel-Leong Hong

Amanda Gorman

Fannie Lou Hamer

Dolores Huerta

Judy Heumann

Rosie The Riveter Day

Nuria Fernandez

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. Click HERE to read more.


Article ⇒  Happy Women's HERstory Month 2022 - Evergreen Times, March 11, 2022  LINK

2022 Women's HERstory Month Recognitions

First Board of Supervisors Women Majority

Board of Supervisors Chiefs of Staff

International Women's Day

Pay Equity

Madeleine Albright

The "Trimates", Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Birutė Galdikas

collage of women from history

2021 Women's History Month Recognitions

2021 Recognitions include:
⇒ First Lady Michelle Obama, Fmr. San Jose Mayor Janet Gray Hayes, Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta, CA State Controller Betty Yee, Fmr. CA Sec. of State March Fong Eu
⇒ Fmr. County Supervisor Blanca Alvarado, US Rep Barbara Lee, CA State Treasurer Fiona Ma, US VP Kamala Harris, Astronaut Ellen Ochoa
⇒ Fmr. US Senator Barbara Boxer, Abolitionist/Saratoga resident Mary Ann Day Brown, US Asst. Sec of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, Modoc Leader Toby Winema
⇒ Women of D3: Allie Hughes, Sandy Runyan, Michelle Pelayo-Osorio, Elica Rahdar, Wendy Ho, Naomi Nakano-Matsumoto
⇒ Fmr. US Rep Helen Gahagan Douglas, Mayordoma Eulalia Perez de Guillen Marine, Clara Shortridge Foltz, Astronaut Sally Ride, Helen Hunt Jackson

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2021 Women's History Month Recognitions

Michelle Obama

Toby Winema Riddle

Blanca Alvarado

Dr. Rachel Levine

Dolores Huerta

Janet Gray Hayes

Barbara Lee

Barbara Boxer

Additional Women's History Month Recognitions

The D3 Team recognizes Women's History Month to celebrate the contributions of women along with recognitions for Black History Month, AANHPI Heritage Month, PRIDE Month, Muslim Americans, and more where we have celebrated women. Click on the their images to read more about the women we have recognized.  

Vice President Kamala Harris

Ali Wong

Alice Walker

Anna May Wong

Amna Nawaz

Arlene Biala

Audre Lorde

Barbara Jordan

bell hooks

Brittney Griner

Chavela Vargas

Chien-Shiung Wu

Connie Chung

Coretta Scott King

Faith Ringgold

Gertrude Stein

Gina Ortiz Jones

Harriet Tubman

Helen Zia

Iola Williams

Iris Chang

Justice Jacqueline My-Le Duong

Janice Lobo Sapigao

Justice Joyce L. Kennard

Julie Su

Kala Bagai

Kalpana Chawla

Ellen Kamei & Rosemary Kamei

Kelly Marie Tran

Laura Wheeler Waring

Maya Angelou

Maya Lin

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird

Ambassador Michelle Kwan

Mimi Nguyen

Ming-Na Wen

Naomi Osaka

Octavia Butler

Sally Ride

Sarina Bolden

Stephanie Murphy

Tammy Baldwin

Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye

Tina Maharath

Vicki Draves

Viola Davis

Wiggsy Siversten

Wilma Chan

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke

Zora Neale Hurston