3 Things Most People Don’t Know About Women’s History Month

Sorry, it not about equality or women’s rights.

Linda Caroll
History of Women
Published in
6 min readMar 7

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Womens History Month collage from Wikipedia

Theresa Malkiel was a 35 year old garment worker when she made up a crazy idea and published it in a daily newspaper.

She said Feb 23, 1909 was the very first “National Women’s Day” and asked readers to meet her on 34th Street.

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