The United Nations began observing International Women's Day, March 8, in 1975 - the International Women's Year.

Read more: March 2007: Womens History Month in the United States

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Media Note: Sec. Rice to Announce the First International Women of Courage Awards

United Nations Development Fund for Women: International Women's Day 2007

Additional Resources

Conversations with History: Women's Rights
Drawing upon the resources of the Conversations with History Archive at the University of California at Berkeley, this site consists of transcripts, video interviews and bibliographies of men and women talking about their lives, their views, and their work. Sociology professor Manuel Castells, Air Force colonel Brenda Hollis, and psychologist Judith Lewis Herman are among those interviewed.

The History of Women's Suffrage in America: Exhibits from the History Channel
Features of this site include a summary of the women's suffrage movement, a list of women's "firsts," and a chronology of important dates going back to 1777.

Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights Movement 1848-1998
A history of the women's movement from the Women's History Project.

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
This is the companion Web site to the Public Broadcasting Service's documentary film on Stanton and Anthony. It presents an overview of their lives and the nineteenth-century women's movement, as well as resources on the history of women's rights and selected articles, essays and original documents.

Woman Suffrage
This page takes you back to 1912 when the public debate over women's suffrage was contested in editorial pages, political cartoons, the streets, and in the home. The pro-suffrage arguments, the anti-suffrage arguments, and information about the political process are portrayed using cartoons, photographs, and essays.

Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this comprehensive lesson plan for grades 6-8 includes a useful list of related links. Complementary lesson plans from "EdSitement" include Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage, Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?, and Women's Suffrage: Why the West Went First.

Women's Suffrage from About.com
These links from About.com focus on woman suffrage in the United States. They include articles and biographies for more in-depth information on the long struggle to win the vote for women and include information on Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Pankhursts, Mathilda Jocelyn Gage, and others.