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# Where can I learn about women's history?
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/where_can_i_learn_about_women_s_history_2602100820/
- Published: 2010-02-26T20:19:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:19:32.000Z
- Description: A reference page noting that Congress created National Women's History Week in 1981 to coincide with International Women's Day on March 8 and expanded it to a month in 1987, with links to Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Census Bureau and Department of Education resources.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Miscellaneous, Health News, #vivvo-import

In 1981, the [U.S. Congress](http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa%5Fict.cfg/php/enduser/std%5Fadp.php?p%5Ffaqid=1399&p%5Fsid=6ZKi2zVj&p%5Flva=7112&ref=foodconsumer.org) passed a resolution establishing National Women's History Week. The week was chosen to coincide with International Women's Day, March 8\. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month. Every year since, Congress passes a resolution for Women's History Month in March. The [Library of Congress (LOC)](http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa%5Fict.cfg/php/enduser/std%5Fadp.php?p%5Ffaqid=7124&p%5Fsid=6ZKi2zVj&p%5Flva=7112&ref=foodconsumer.org) also provides a website for [Women's History Month](http://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/?ref=foodconsumer.org).

For facts and statistics related to Women's History Month, please view the [Facts for Features: Women's History Month](http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts%5Ffor%5Ffeatures%5Fspecial%5Feditions/014522.html?ref=foodconsumer.org) from the [Census Bureau](http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa%5Fict.cfg/php/enduser/std%5Fadp.php?p%5Ffaqid=43&p%5Fsid=6ZKi2zVj&p%5Flva=7112&ref=foodconsumer.org).

**Additional Resources:**

- [Smithsonian - Women's History Month](http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage%5Fmonth/whm/?ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [Department of Education (ED) - Women's History](http://www.free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject%5Fid=26&res%5Ffeature%5Frequest=0&ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [Women of Protest 1917](http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/?ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [American Women](http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/?ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [Timeline of the National Woman's Party 1912-1997](http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/brftime.html?ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [Writing Women Back into History](http://www.nps.gov/ncro/PublicAffairs/Womens%5FHistory%5FMonth.html?ref=foodconsumer.org)
- [Women in Rural America](http://ric.nal.usda.gov/nal%5Fdisplay/index.php?info%5Fcenter=5&tax%5Flevel=2&tax%5Fsubject=211&want%5Fid=1659&topic%5Fid=1166&placement%5Fdefault=0&ref=foodconsumer.org)

By USA.gov Team