Albuquerque Public Schools: APS Honors Its Own During Women's History Month

Press release from Albuquerque Public Schools:

March 1, 2022

In celebration of Women's History Month 2022, The APS Office of Equity and Engagement is celebrating the women of Albuquerque Public Schools every week for the month of March. Students, staff, and parents are invited to nominate a woman role model in their lives. Their photo and short story will be shared on the Office of Equity and Engagement's website and social media accounts. New slideshow presentations will be uploaded every Monday during March. 

We'd like to thank the many women of APS for their contributions, service, and ongoing resilience! 

Every year, March is designated Women's History Month by presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women's contributions to American history.

In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women's History Week. In the proclamation, President Carter wrote: "From the first settlers who came to our shores, from the first American Indian families who befriended them, men and women have worked together to build this nation. Too often the women were using and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength, and love o the women who build American was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well."

Since then, presidents continued to proclaim a National Women's History Week in March until 1987 when Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as Women's History Month. Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women's History Month. Since 1995, each president has issued annual proclamations designating the month of March as Women's History Month.

The National Women's History Alliance selects and publishes the yearly theme. The theme for 2022 – Providing Healing, Promoting Hope –  is both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history.

This press release was produced by Albuquerque Public Schools. The views expressed here are the author’s own.