A series of chance meetings between five Sonoma County women sparked a shared mission to “write women back into history,” by establishing a curriculum, founding a nonprofit organization and persuading the president to recognize the role of women every year
, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in education and sports had passed, and Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes had launched Ms. Magazine. Still, little information about the history of half the population was readily available to students.Molly MacGregor, then a 24-year-old, 11th-grade history teacher in Santa Rosa, came up near empty-handed in trying to answer her student’s question.
In a roundabout way, MacGregor’s experience in 1972 led to the creation of Women’s History Month, now celebrated across the U.S. each March. There, she met two other students, Paula Hammett and Bette Morgan. Hammett was working on a presentation about women’s history that was eventually shown in nursing homes, classrooms and union halls.
With help from a federal grant though the Women’s Educational Equity Act, which funds the development of teaching materials free of gender bias, they expanded their mission. Carter signed a presidential proclamation, calling on Americans to recognize centuries of women’s history. “I urge libraries, schools, and community organizations to focus their observances on the leaders who struggled for equality — Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, and Alice Paul.”
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