with Kisha Green WOMEN MAKING HISTORY While figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Rosie the Riveter and Betty Friedan are often associated with Women’s History Month, there are countless extraordinary women who have earned their place at the table. I would also like to mention some other notably awesome females who deserve their flowers. Maya Angelou, Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Ava Guardney, Shonda Rhimes, Whoopi Goldberg, Eartha Kitt and the list goes on that include some phenomenal women who may not be famous but are simply amazing. Women’s History Month is a celebration commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history, but let me add as a black woman, I personally make history everyday, just like many other females who get up every day and defy the odds by never allowing failure to be an option. Let’s face it, we live in a sexist world, and sometimes the opportunities are not always presented to females that are offered to men, so with that, we as women must work, harder, go to school longer, put in excessive hours of overtime on a constant basis to simply prove our worth for a seat at the table, so with those barriers constantly nipping at our ankles ALL women need to be celebrated because we are all equally DOPE. it started out a just a week of celebrating women, so now lets explore the how did this all come about? Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year according to www. womenshistory.org I want to also add that although females are often fighting the opposite sex for those seats at the tables, there are females too that do not think some women are worthy either. This is another problem, as there are so many unique and talented women in the world that we can stand together and get a lot further than arguing with one another over trivial things. There is room at the top for all of us. Do you think Shonda Rhimes views Ava Guardney as her competition? Nope, she sees her as a team member who too, is making history. Let’s get in the habit of celebrating ,congratulating and motivating, and LESS hating! So, I want to give flowers to all the women that are holding it down while making it look so easy. Be Blessed & Stay Encouraged
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