Women Change America through Health and Safety

March is Women's History Month. During this month we:

• celebrate and honor the role of American women in transforming our culture, history, and politics
• provide a more expansive vision of what a woman can do
• encourage girls and women to think larger and bolder
• give boys and men a fuller understanding of the female experience

Source: National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/whm/themes/themes.html (Non-CDC site)

Find out more:

Ways Women Can Help Change America to be Safer and Healthier
http://www.cdc.gov/women/owh/womchange/ways.htm

A Timeline of CDC/ATSDR Contributions to Women's Health
http://www.cdc.gov/women/contributions/index.htm

Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility in Health
http://www.cdc.gov/women/owh/wominspire/

Women’s History Month Facts for Features
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/
facts_for_features_special_editions/index.html (Non-CDC site)

A Century of Women’s Health 1900-2000
http://www.womenshealth.gov/TimeCapsule/century/ (Non-CDC site)

We the People: Women and Men in the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/censr-20.pdf (Non-CDC site)

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This page last reviewed April 12, 2005
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/women/owh/hist2005/index.htm

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