Women are powerful and beautiful entity of the world

Various women groups and historians successfully lobbied for national recognition that came in February, 1980 when President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women’s History Week. Succeeding Presidents continued to proclaim National Women’s History Week in March until Congress pass Public Law 100-9 in 1987 that designated March as National Women’s History Month.

Edie Ignacio Neumiller is the Kaua‘i commissioner to the Hawai‘i State Committee on the Status of Women, and Regina Carvalho chairs the Kaua‘i Committee on the Status of Women who will celebrate the theme of “Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to be Silenced” that, in 2020, marked the 100th anniversary on women winning the right to vote.

In 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association that fought for a universal suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution. That fight lasted until Aug. 18, 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

The Council Certificate also states that March 8, 2021 is recognized as International Women’s Day, a day set aside annually around the world to celebrate social, economic, cultural, and political advancement for women.

March 8 also serves as a call to action for gender equity.

The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is “Choose to Challenge, in which a challenged world is an alert world, and from challenge comes change.

“We can all choose to challenge, and call out gender bias and inequality, we can all choose to seek to and celebrate women’s achievements, and we collectively can all help create an inclusive world,” states the Certificate. “From challenge comes change, so let us all choose to challenge.”