US: why women's history month?

[loyalsister]

1. It's more than suffrage and the seventies

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American history as we know it was written by white men.

In contrast to the romantic visions men have written about in regard to western expansion and homesteading-

Women's letters (mostly excluded from historical records) included "accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness, and grief" from their perspective.

This makes the point very well.
On edit: She reads an excerpt from "Women's Diaries of The Westward Journey" The stories were written but largely ignored. They certainly weren't required reading in my 70s - 80s classrooms.