Women's History Month celebrates the history, activism, and achievements of girls and women. It has been observed in the United States annually since 1987, when Congress passed a resolution to expand Women's History Week to an entire month.
From the History Channel website:
The actual celebration of Women’s History Month grew out of a weeklong celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history and society organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, in 1978. Presentations were given at dozens of schools, hundreds of students participated in a “Real Woman” essay contest and a parade was held in downtown Santa Rosa.
A few years later, the idea caught on within communities, school districts and organizations across the country. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women’s History Week. The U.S. Congress followed suit the next year, passing a resolution establishing a national celebration. Six years later, the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned Congress to expand the event to the entire month of March.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/womens-history-month
Women in Leadership and Activism
- Her honor : my life on the bench...what works, what's broken, and how to change it- Cordell, LaDoris H. 347.794 CORDELL
- Shirley Chisholm : champion of Black feminist power politics- Curwood, Anastasia Carol 320.082 CHISHOLM C
- Paris : the memoir- Paris Hilton 973.931 HILTON
- Sisters in law : how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world- Hirshman, Linda R. 347.7326 HIRSHMAN
- Walk through fire : a memoir of love, loss, and triumph- Johnson, Sheila C. 338.0409 JOHNSON
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics- Des Jardins, Julie 070.92 MELONEY D
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality- Brown-Nagin, Tomiko 347.7314 MOTLEY B
- Lovely one : a memoir by Jackson, Ketanji Brown 347.7326 JACKSON
- The prison angel : Mother Antonia's journey from Beverly Hills to a life of service in a Mexican jail by Jordan, Mary 271.97 ANTONIA J
- Black women will save the world : an anthem- Ryan, April 920.72 RYAN
- How to say Babylon : a memoir- Sinclair, Safiya 305.89 SINCLAIR
Women in the Military and Espionage
- They fought like demons : women soldiers in the American Civil War- Blanton, DeAnne 973.7082 BLANTON PAPER
- I am a soldier, too : the Jessica Lynch story- Bragg, Rick 956.7044 LYNCH B
- The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers- Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth 940.4173 COBBS HOFFMAN
- Every day is a gift- Duckworth, Tammy 328.73 DUCKWORTH
- The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II- Kiernan, Denise 976.873 KIERNAN
- Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield- Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach 958.1047 WHITE T
- The princess spy : the true story of World War II spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones- Loftis, Larry 940.5486 GRIFFITH L
- Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy- Loftis, Larry 940.5486 ODETTE L
- Women of the blue and gray : true Civil War stories of mothers, medics, soldiers, and spies- Monson, Marianne 973.7082 MONSON
- Love my rifle more than you : young and female in the U.S. Army- Williams, Kayla 355.0082 WILLIAMS
Women in Sports
- In the water they can't see you cry- Beard, Amanda 797.21 BEARD
- The striker and the clock : on being in the game- Cloepfil, Georgia 796.334 CLOEPFIL
- America's girl : the incredible story of how swimmer Gertrude Ederle changed the nation- Dahlberg, Tim 797.21 EDERLE D
- Sidelined : sports, culture, and being a woman in America- DiCaro, Julie 796.082 DICARO
- Coming home- Griner, Brittney 796.323 GRINER
- Pretty good for a girl- Heywood, Leslie 796.4209 HEYWOOD
- Althea : the life of tennis champion Althea Gibson- Jacobs, Sally H. 796.342 GIBSON J
- Just add water : my swimming life- Ledecky, Katie LP 797.21 LEDECKY
- Far beyond gold : running from fear to faith- McLaughlin, Sydney 277.3092 MCLAUGHLIN
- Brace for impact- Montesanti, Gabe 796.21 MONTESANTI
- One life- Rapinoe, Megan 796.334 RAPINOE
- They better call me Sugar : my journey from the hood to the hardwood- Rodgers, Sugar YA 796.323 RODGERS
- Naomi Osaka : her journey to finding her power and her voice- Rothenberg, Ben 796.342 OSAKA R
- The race to be myself- Semenya, Caster 796.42 SEMENYA
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight- Toorpakai, Maria 796.343 TOORPAKAI
- Game, set, match : Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports- Ware, Susan 796.342 KING W
Women in STEM Fields
- Sisters in science : how four women physicists escaped Nazi Germany and made scientific history- Campbell, Olivia M. 530.092 CAMPBELL
- The secret history of home economics : how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live- Dreilinger, Danielle 640.92 DREILINGER
- Financial feminist : overcome the patriarchy's bullsh*t to master your money and build a life you love- Dunlap, Tori 332.024 DUNLAP
- The six : the untold story of America's first women astronauts- Grush, Loren 629.4 GRUSH
- The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race- Isaacson, Walter 576.5 ISAACSON
- The counterfeit Countess : the Jewish woman who rescued thousands of Poles during the Holocaust- White, Elizabeth B. 940.5318 MEHLBERG W
- Women behind the wheel : an unexpected and personal history of the car- Nichols, Nancy A. 629.283 NICHOLS
Feminism and Women’s Rights
- The book of gutsy women- Clinton, Hillary Rodham 920.72 CLINTON
- Suffrage : women's long battle for the vote- DuBois, Ellen Carol 324.623 DUBOIS
- Black women taught us : an intimate history of Black feminism- Jackson, Jenn M. 305.4889 JACKSON
- Funding feminism : monied women, philanthropy, and the women's movement, 1870-1967- Johnson, Joan Marie 305.42 JOHNSON
- The trouble with white women : a counterhistory of feminism- Schuller, Kyla 305.4209 SCHULLER
- Dangerous women : fifty reflections on women, power and identity- Shaw, Jo 305.42 SHAW
- Revolutionary women : 50 women of color who reinvented the rules- Shen, Ann 305.42 SHEN