Women’s History Month 2017 (March). Women’s History Month Theme - “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business”
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Women's History Month, in March, is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and their accomplishments throughout history and in contemporary society.
Growing out of a small-town school event in California, Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society. The United States has observed it annually throughout the month of March since 1987.
“Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business”is the theme for National Women’s History Month 2017.
The 2017 theme for National Women’s History Month honors women who have successfully challenged the role of women in both business and the paid labor force. Women have always worked, but often their work has been undervalued and unpaid.
The 2017 Honorees represent many diverse backgrounds and each made her mark in a different field. Additionally, the Honorees’ work and influence spans three centuries of America’s history. These women all successfully challenged the social and legal structures that have kept women’s labor underappreciated and underpaid.
Facing stark inequalities in the workplace (lower wages, poor working conditions, and limited opportunities), they fought to make the workplace a less hostile environment for women. They succeeded in expanding women’s participation in commerce and their power in the paid labor force. As labor and business leaders and innovators they defied the social mores of their times by demonstrating women’s ability to create organizations and establish their own businesses that paved the way for better working conditions and wages for themselves and other women.
They proved that women could succeed in every field. While each Honoree is extraordinary, each is also ordinary in her own way, proving that women business and labor leaders can and should be considered the norm. Most importantly, the 2017 Honorees paved the way for generations of women labor and business leaders to follow.
2017 National Women’s History Month Honorees
Rebecca
Anderson
(1940
- Present)
Community and Economic Development Organizer
Barbara
Hackman Franklin
(1940
- Present)
Former Secretary of Commerce
Alexis
Herman
(1947
- Present)
Former Secretary of Labor
Lilly
Ledbetter
(1938)
Equal Pay Activist
Kate
Mullany
(1845
– 1906)
Organized First All-Female Labor Union
Lucy
Gonzalez Parsons
(c.
1853- 1942)
Labor Organizer and Socialist Leader
Barbara
“Dusty” Roads
(1928)
Flight Attendant’s Union Leader
Andra
Rush
(1952)
Founder/ CEO, Rush Group
Nina
Vaca
(1971)
CEO and Chairman of Pinnacle Group
Maggie
Lena Walker
(1864
– 1934)
Businesswoman and Community Banking Leader
Yvonne
Walker
(1959)
President, Service Employees International Union
(SEIU) Local 1000
Addie L. Wyatt
(1924
– 2012)
Labor Union Leader and Civil Rights Activist
Norma Yaeger
(1930)
First woman stockbroker to be permitted on the
floor
of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
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