Women’s History Month began as Women’s History Week in Santa Rosa, California in 1978. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women wanted the week to include International Women’s Day (March 8). This recognition of women expanded to other communities and by 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 to be National Women’s History Week. Predecessors of Carter continued the recognition until Congress designated March as Women’s History Month in 1987, almost a decade after the first Women’s History Week. Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”
On March 3, 2024 Caitlin Clark, aged 22, scored her 3,668th point breaking the 54-year-old record to become the NCAA ALL-TIME Leading Scorer. The record was previously set by Pete Maravich. The Iowa Hawkeyes superstar had already become the NCAA Women's all time lead scorer on February 15th, 2024. Caitlin announced she plans to enter this spring´s WNBA draft and as arguably the biggest star in college basketball this season among men and women, is expected to be selected first.
Last Super Bowl Sunday, 4 women made history. The flyover before the game was the first to be piloted by an all-female team. The four female pilots orchestrated the diamond formation that honored 50 years of women flying in the U.S. Navy. 8 women became the first female candidates to enter the U.S. Navy flight school in 1973 and graduated a year later earning their wings and becoming known as the “The First Six”.
Body Confident Sport is a global initiative that was developed in partnership with Nike and Dove along with experts from the Centre for Appearance Research and Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport to combat the number one reason young girls quit sports globally- low body confidence. Around the world, 45% of teenage girls are dropping out of sports-at twice the rate of boys-because of low body confidence. This program makes confidence-building resources available online in several languages to provide coaches, parents, and guardians with the tools on how to best support female athletes and improve body confidence among all young women globally.
Learn more about their work at: www.bodyconfidentsport.com