HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022 March Women's History MonthCOLUMBIA 0 HEIGHTS
PROCLAMATION
Women s History Month: March 2022
WHEREAS, Women have played and continue to play critical economic, cultural, and
social roles in our country, our state, and our community by constituting a significant
portion of the labor force working inside and outside the home. Women throughout history
have also played a unique role by providing a majority of the volunteer labor force of our
country; and
WHEREAS, Women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable,
philanthropic, and cultural institutions in our Nation. Women have also served and
continue to serve our country courageously in the military; and
WHEREAS, Women have been leaders, not only in securing their own rights of suffrage
and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement,
the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement and other movements, especially
the peace movement, which create a more fair and just society for all; and
WHEREAS, the first Women's Day took place on February 28,1909 in New York City, as a
national observance organized by the Socialist Party. It honored the one-year anniversary of
the garment worker's strikes in New York when thousands of women marched for
economic rights through lower Manhattan to Union Square; and
WHEREAS, as recently as the 1970s, women s history was virtually an unknown topic in
the K-12 curriculum. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma
County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a "Women s History
Week" celebration for 1978. Former President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the first National
Women s History Week for March 2-8,1980. In 1987, Congress passed a proclamation
establishing the month of March as Women s History Month; and
WHEREAS, we recognize women of different skin colors, cultures, sexual orientation,
gender identity, and social -economic class where they were historically excluded; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbia Heights is proud to honor the history and contributions
of all women in our community, our state, and our Nation.
NOW, 'THEREFORE, be it resolved that I, Amada Marquez Simula, Mayor of Columbia
Heights, do hereby proclaim the month of March, 2022 to be Women s History Month in the
City of Columbia Heights, County of Anoka, State of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Amada Marquez Simula, Mayor
February 28, 2022