"Women's History Month was conceived by an Education Task Force in Sonoma County, California in 1978. At the time, most history was the narrative of men's political, military and economic decisions. Women were left out of the narrative."
"To understand the past, or the present, we needed to bring a 'gender lens' to all of history and the study of society. Without a gender lens, we cannot move past a patriarchal and misogynist understanding of history."
"Rather than pushing forward to more fully use a gender lens to understand our past, present, and future, our government is pushing us backward, trying to stop feminist progress and forbid using a gender lens to understand the world."
Women's History Month began in 1978 to address the exclusion of women's narratives from history. Initially focused on uncovering women's historical facts, the field evolved to examine gender relations and patriarchy. The Gender Lens book series was created to further this understanding. Despite advancements in feminist scholarship, current governmental actions threaten to reverse progress by limiting the use of a gender lens in historical and sociological studies, exemplified by the removal of reproductive health information from federal websites.
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