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Why only March?
As March closes, I find myself sitting with a question that I can’t help but ask.
March is Women’s History Month, and with it comes something that never gets old. LinkedIn feeds that are usually full of industry updates and career milestones shift into something else entirely. Women being recognized, lifted up, amplified. Panels organized, events hosted, rooms filled with women sharing their journeys, their wisdom, their hard-earned lessons. Corporate spaces pausing to say what is always true- women matter, and that women have built this world, too.
But here is the thing that keeps sitting with me.
Why only March?
Women’s History Month exists because for most of history, women’s stories were left out of it. The women who marched were arrested and force-fed in prison cells, so that we could one day walk into a voting booth. The women who fought for the right to own property, to open a bank account, and to be believed in a courtroom. The women who pushed through doors that were never meant to open for them, and held them open long enough for the rest of us to walk through.
We owe them everything.
And yet the world they…
