[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 42 (Friday, March 3, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 12101-12102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-5476]




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Part IV





The President





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 Proclamation 6773--Women's History Month


                        Presidential Documents 



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

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The President  
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                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 
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                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 and 
                nineteenth.

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