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Joe Hernandez

Women's History Month grew out of a weeklong commemoration by Jimmy Carter in 1980

President Jimmy Carter signs a proclamation designating March 2-8, 1980, as the first national Women's History Week. (National Archives)

Years before it became a full month, there was Women's History Week.

In 1978, Sonoma County, Calif., held the first known Women's History Week to align with International Women's Day.

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