Christian Peterson ECB Publishing, Inc. Women’s History Month is celebrated during March each year, centering around March 8, which is International Women’s Day. The celebration, however, dates all the way back to 1978, when the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned out the first “Women’s History Week.” The week of March 8 was selected because of the time of International Women’s Day. Before long, the celebration made its way across the United States and “Women’s History Week” was taking hold all over the nation. Things grew even larger in 1980, just a few short years after the first celebration. Multiple women