Enrolled March 21, 2023 Passed IN Senate March 20, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Resolution No. 21Introduced by Senator SkinnerMarch 06, 2023Relative to Womens History Month. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSR 21, Skinner. Digest KeyBill TextWHEREAS, American women of every culture, class, and ethnic background have been essential participants in the founding and building of our nation, have made historic and substantial contributions to the growth and strength of our nation, including playing a critical role in our countrys innovations in science, technology, commerce, arts and culture; andWHEREAS, Women have been leaders in every movement for social change, including their own movement for suffrage and equal rights, the fight for emancipation, the struggle to organize labor unions, and the civil rights movement, as well as leading the call for peace and organizing to preserve the environment; andWHEREAS, Despite the significant contributions women have made to our civic, economic and cultural life, these achievements by women have been largely overlooked and unacknowledged which has contributed to the pervasive gender inequity present throughout American society; andWHEREAS, The observance of Womens History Week was initiated by the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women in 1978, an occasion that was then enacted by Congress in the 1987 as National Womens History Month in perpetuity in acknowledgment that the significant contributions made by women to every field of American life were largely undocumented and unknown and deserve to be recognized; andWHEREAS, Womens History Month is now commemorated throughout the nation by schools, historians, and community groups and provides an opportunity for schools and communities to focus attention on the historical role and accomplishments of the women of California and the United States and for students, in particular, to benefit from an awareness of these contributions; andWHEREAS, The declaration of Womens History Month will be not only a call to acknowledge the outstanding American women whose names we know, but also a call to pay homage to the many women who have anonymously shaped our collective past; andWHEREAS, The achievements of the women who have gone before us will enable contemporary women and men to create tomorrows history by working toward an end to physical and sexual violence against women, discrimination and harassment in employment and education, and the relegation to poverty status of many women, and by advocating for the full participation of women in every arena whether politics, government, business, science, technology, or academia, as well as equal access to all of the opportunities this great nation has to offer; now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate of the State of California, That the Senate of the State of California takes pleasure in joining the United States Congress and the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls in honoring the contributions of women, and proclaims the month of March 2023 as Womens History Month; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the Vice Chair of the California Legislative Womens Caucus, to the Chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls for distribution to appropriate organizations, and to the California State Librarian.
Enrolled March 21, 2023 Passed IN Senate March 20, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Senate Resolution No. 21Introduced by Senator SkinnerMarch 06, 2023Relative to Womens History Month. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSR 21, Skinner. Digest Key
Enrolled March 21, 2023 Passed IN Senate March 20, 2023
Enrolled March 21, 2023
Passed IN Senate March 20, 2023
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Resolution
No. 21
Introduced by Senator SkinnerMarch 06, 2023
Introduced by Senator Skinner
March 06, 2023
Relative to Womens History Month.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SR 21, Skinner.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
WHEREAS, American women of every culture, class, and ethnic background have been essential participants in the founding and building of our nation, have made historic and substantial contributions to the growth and strength of our nation, including playing a critical role in our countrys innovations in science, technology, commerce, arts and culture; and
WHEREAS, Women have been leaders in every movement for social change, including their own movement for suffrage and equal rights, the fight for emancipation, the struggle to organize labor unions, and the civil rights movement, as well as leading the call for peace and organizing to preserve the environment; and
WHEREAS, Despite the significant contributions women have made to our civic, economic and cultural life, these achievements by women have been largely overlooked and unacknowledged which has contributed to the pervasive gender inequity present throughout American society; and
WHEREAS, The observance of Womens History Week was initiated by the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women in 1978, an occasion that was then enacted by Congress in the 1987 as National Womens History Month in perpetuity in acknowledgment that the significant contributions made by women to every field of American life were largely undocumented and unknown and deserve to be recognized; and
WHEREAS, Womens History Month is now commemorated throughout the nation by schools, historians, and community groups and provides an opportunity for schools and communities to focus attention on the historical role and accomplishments of the women of California and the United States and for students, in particular, to benefit from an awareness of these contributions; and
WHEREAS, The declaration of Womens History Month will be not only a call to acknowledge the outstanding American women whose names we know, but also a call to pay homage to the many women who have anonymously shaped our collective past; and
WHEREAS, The achievements of the women who have gone before us will enable contemporary women and men to create tomorrows history by working toward an end to physical and sexual violence against women, discrimination and harassment in employment and education, and the relegation to poverty status of many women, and by advocating for the full participation of women in every arena whether politics, government, business, science, technology, or academia, as well as equal access to all of the opportunities this great nation has to offer; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, That the Senate of the State of California takes pleasure in joining the United States Congress and the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls in honoring the contributions of women, and proclaims the month of March 2023 as Womens History Month; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the Vice Chair of the California Legislative Womens Caucus, to the Chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls for distribution to appropriate organizations, and to the California State Librarian.