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March
is National Women's History Month and the theme for 2004 is
"Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility"
In 1978,
the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the
Status of Women in California, began a "Women's History
Week" celebration. The week was chosen to coincide with
International Women's Day, which was first celebrated March 8, 1911,
in Europe.
Three years
later, the United States Congress passed a resolution establishing
National Women's History Week, which was expanded to a month in 1987
at the request of the National Women's History Project . Every year
since then the U.S. Congress has issued a resolution for Women's
History Month.
Think you
know about women in history? Test your knowledge below
1. Who was
the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
2. She was
the patron saint of Paris and is said to have used the power of
prayer to save her city from the Huns.
3. Sheila
Widnall was the first female secretary of which branch of the U.S.
military?.
4. Which
woman aviator disappeared while attempting to fly around the world?
5. She was
the first black woman millionaire in the United States with her line
of beauty products.
6. Who is
the only royal princess of a foreign country to be pictured on a
U.S. stamp?
7. What was
the Persons Case in Canada?
8. Who was
the first American woman in space?
9. Who was
the first black woman to win the Wimbledon Singles title?
10. She
wrote about women's suffrage, temperance, prison reform and child
labor but is best known for her book, Little Women. Who is she?
Women's
History Quiz Answers
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Maggie Halliday is the founder and owner of International Woman, the
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