Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS)

March is Women's History Month.

Women's History Month began when, in 1981, Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 requesting the President to issue a proclamation designating the week of 7 March 1982 "Women's History Week." The proclamations continued each year until 1987 when, partly in response to requests from the National Women's History Project (NWHP), Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which made March 1987 the first Women's History Month.

Sources
https://womenshistorymonth.gov/about/
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/our-history/

The University Libraries' 2023 Women's History Month Speaker Series, Coloniality and Contagion: COVID-19 and the Disposability of Women of Color in Feminized Labor Sectors, features Jade Kai & Jose Flores Sanchez examining the factors that contribute to the high proximity of women of color to contagion. 

Date: March 2, 2023
Time: 3-4pm
Location: on Zoom
Information & registration link

After seventy years of fighting for the right to vote in New York state, women finally won that right on November 6, 1917. An exhibit on loan from the Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC) features material related to the women’s suffrage movement’s efforts to secure women’s right to vote in New York state, including images of posters, pamphlets, signs, and postcards. The exhibit is on display in the Melville Library’s Central Reading Room from March 2 -30, 2023.