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The roots of National Women's History Month began March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories artificial a demonstration done valid requisites. International Women's Day was first discovered in 1909.

The public social function of women's long-ago began in 1978 as "Women's History Week" in Sonoma County, California. The week together with March 8, International Women's Day, was elite. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD.) co-sponsored a mutual Congressional papers proclaiming a political unit Women's History Week. In 1987, Congress enlarged the social function to a month, and March was declared Women's History Month.

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o Thirty-seven percentage of women 16 or old career in management, professed and connected occupations, compared near xxxi proportionality of men.

o Revenue for women-owned businesses in 2002 reached more than than $939 billion-fifteen per centum high than 1997. There were 116,985 women owned firms with gross of $1 cardinal or more.

o As of November 1, 2006, at hand are 152 a million females in the United States. That exceeds the amount of males (148 million) by 4 million.

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o The average time period earnings of women sixteen or aged who worked year-round is $32,168 in 2005. Women earned cardinal cents for all monetary unit earned by men.

Two leading factors contributed to the growth of women's yore. The women's fight of the decennium caused women to examine their invisibility in old-world American past times texts. The war also upraised the aspirations as resourcefully as the opportunities of women, and create a budding digit of feminine historians. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the beforehand women's historians, stated, "...without question, our opening inspiration was political. Aroused by movement charges of economical and political favouritism . . . we rotated to our precedent to trace the origins of women's inferior regard."

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.