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Each year, the National Women’s History Alliance designates a theme for the month. The 2025 theme is “Moving Forward Together,” focusing on “women educating and inspiring generations.” The theme is to highlight and support women who have dedicated their lives to education, mentorship and leadership to shape the minds and futures of all generations.
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"Women's history is an essential and indispensable part of the national narrative. By understanding the achievements, struggles, and contributions of women throughout history, we gain a fuller, more accurate, and more inclusive understanding of our collective past".
-Molly Murphy MacGregor Co-Founder & former Executive Director, NWHA
In 1987, the month of March was selected to observe Women's History Month. Historically, women's contributions and achievements have often been overlooked. Women's History Month is an opportunity to educate and inform people of women's history and honor the numerous and grand accomplishment made by women from all over the world.
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Gather with others! Start a book club that focuses on women's topics. Watch a documentary about women's rights.
Make something! Create a playlist of women's empowerment songs. Make a collage that honors women in history.
Open your ears! Listen to TED talks given by women. Ask women in your own family about their life experiences.
Take action! Volunteer with a non-profit that supports women. Shop at businesses owned by women.
Reach out! Send your friends women's history postcards in the mail. Find a pen pal in another country and write to her.
Learn something! View an exhibit about women's history. Plan a Pecha Kucha gathering with friends.
You don't need to be an expert to work women's history into your class:
Invite a presenter to speak.
Watch a documentary about women's rights.
Listen to a podcast about women's issues.
Play women's history trivia.
Have students research women specific to the course discipline.
Start each class session with a quote by a woman.
Start each class session reading a 3-minute bio of a woman.
Plan a field trip to a women's history month presentation or event.
Have students brainstorm their own ways to celebrate women's history.
Encourage students to sign a petition that supports women in some way.