City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0027R

• File #: 08-0027R
• Version: 0
• Name: Women's History Month
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/10/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/10/2008
• Title: Women's History Month FOR the purpose of celebrating Women's History Month in recognition and appreciation of the many contributions of women to the nation's social, spiritual, economical, and cultural growth and endorsing the annual Congressional Resolution designating the month of March as "Women's History Month."
• Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, Warren Branch, Robert Curran, Bill Henry, Helen L. Holton, President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/10/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
3/10/2008	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
3/10/2008	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Women's History Month

FOR the purpose of celebrating Women's History Month in recognition and appreciation of the many contributions of women to the nation's social, spiritual, economical, and cultural growth and endorsing the annual Congressional Resolution designating the month of March as "Women's History Month."
Body
Recitals

The National Women's History Project notes that every year since 1987, the President of the United States has issued a special Women's History Month Proclamation. The March 2008 National Women's History Month Proclamation states:

Whereas, American women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of our Nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; and

Whereas, American women have played and continue to play a critical economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life of the Nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home; and

Whereas, American women have played a unique role throughout the history of the Nation by providing the majority of the volunteer labor force of the Nation, were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable, philanthropic, and cultural institutions in our Nation, and American women of every race, class, and ethnic b...