Presidential Documents

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Federal Register

Vol. 60, No. 42

Friday, March 3, 1995

Title 3—

The President

Proclamation 6773 of March 1, 1995

Women’s History Month, 1995

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Women have made inestimable contributions to our country throughout

our Nation’s history. Some have names we recognize. Clara Barton. Harriet

Tubman. Susan B. Anthony. Eleanor Roosevelt. And Rosa Parks. But women’s

history is also about the countless women whose names we do not know—

the millions of women of courage and commitment who have served this

society as doctors and scientists, teachers and factory workers, marathoners

and mothers. At home and in schools, in offices and congregations, in

our Armed Forces and our communities, women have helped to build this

Nation and keep it strong. It is in their honor that we pause to celebrate

Women’s History Month each year.

The story of women’s accomplishments in America is long and proud.

Patriots such as Dolly Madison and Harriet Beecher Stowe put their concern

for country ahead of their own well-being in order to advance the principles

of justice and freedom upon which this Nation was founded. Writers and

artists such as Emily Dickinson, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Martha Graham enlivened our culture, extended our horizons, and expanded our appreciation

of the world around us. And in recent decades, women have made enormous

strides. The pioneers such as Jane Addams, founder of Chicago’s Hull House

and our first woman Nobel Prize winner, and Frances Perkins, our first

woman Cabinet Officer, have paved the way for ever growing numbers

of women running businesses and universities, serving as governors and

diplomats, conducting orchestras and exploring space, helping to lead our

land toward a new century.

Yet barriers remain. Women now work for pay in greater numbers, in more

occupations, and for more years of their lives than ever before, but too

many must still settle for compensation far below what it should be, and

too many still find their potential curbed by glass ceilings. And women

still struggle every day, in tests of resourcefulness and devotion, to balance

the demands of work and family. If freedom and opportunity are truly

to be the law of the land, we must sustain and renew our commitment

to the principle of equality that is our American heritage and work to

remove the obstacles that stand in the way.

Women’s History Month offers us an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of all of the women who have enriched our Nation. I encourage

Americans to learn about women’s history—this month and throughout the

year. Only by studying the history of America’s women—their triumphs

and their struggles—can we understand the history of America.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution

and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the month of March

1995 as ‘‘Women’s History Month.’’ I ask all Americans to observe this

month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities, and to remember year-round the many and varied contributions that women make each

day.
12102 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 42 / Friday, March 3, 1995 / Presidential Documents

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of

March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and

of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred

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and nineteenth.

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