BACK IN THE DAY
What year was the First International Women's Day?
1911
An American nurse and a former slave who volunteered in the U.S. Navy to be a nurse aboard USS Red Rover
In 1978, the school district in Sonoma, CA participated in what event?
Women's History Week
Established in 1908 by an Act of Congress, twenty women were selected as the first members and assigned to the Naval Medical School Hospital in Washington, D.C
United States Navy Nurse Corps
Which President issued a presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980 as National Women's History Week?
President Jimmy Carter
First woman to enlist in the Navy on 17 March 1917
Loretta Perfectus Walsh
When was the Women's History Month designated?
March 1987
An engineering draftsman, became the first woman assigned to perform duties aboard a United States Navy ship as part of her official responsibilities in 1943
Thelma Bendler Stern
In March 2011, the Obama administration released a report, showing women's status in the U.S. in 2011 and how it had changed over time. What was the report called?
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being
This program was opened to women in 1972 and the first woman was commissioned from this program was in 1974
ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps)