As Early As March 1911, the first International Women's Day was celebrated in Germany, Austria, Denmark, and a few other European countries. In 1987, the National Women's History Project petitioned the Congress of the United States to designate the month of March as National Women's History Month. In the years since then, the interest in and support of these two occasions have grown steadily, providing increasing opportunities to celebrate the significant achievements of women. International Women's Day has spread to many more countries around the world, and National Women's History Month activities have grown rapidly across the United States.
Men and women are yearning to understand the qualities that will improve their lives.
As both men and women search to understand more deeply the meaning of womanhood—and how both genders can be caring, strong, intuitive, successful—events that focus on women's strengths and gifts are gaining in popularity. Thousands attend the wideranging events hosted throughout each March, some simply to meet with those having similar questions and concerns, others in hope of finding answers about their own identity and sense of purpose. Men and women are yearning to experience and understand the qualities that will improve their lives, and are hoping to find role models who have proved how these qualities can enable them to overcome limitation, discrimination, unhappiness, and hardship.
