HR 14
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Date of Hearing: February 24, 2025
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Blanca Pacheco, Chair
HR 14 (Aguiar-Curry) – As Introduced February 14, 2025
SUBJECT: Women’s History Month.
SUMMARY: Proclaims the month of March 2025 as Women’s History Month and provides
that the Assembly takes pleasure in joining the United States Congress and the California
Commission on the Status of Women and Girls in honoring the contributions of women.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1) Women of every culture, class, and ethnic background have been essential participants in the
founding and building of our nation and the State of California, and have made historic and
substantial contributions to the growth and strength of our nation and state.
2) Women have been and continue to be groundbreakers in every facet of our economic, civic,
academic and cultural life, and responsible for significant “firsts” in business, science,
athletics, technology, medicine, arts, and culture.
3) Women have been leaders in every movement for social change, including their own
movement for suffrage and equal rights, the fight for emancipation, the struggle to organize
labor unions, and the civil rights movement, as well as leading the call for peace and
organizing to preserve the environment.
4) Despite the significant contributions women have made, many achievements by women have
been largely overlooked and unacknowledged, which has contributed to the pervasive gender
inequity present throughout American society.
5) The observance of Women’s History Week was initiated by the Sonoma County Commission
on the Status of Women in 1978, an occasion that was then enacted by Congress in 1987 as
National Women’s History Month in perpetuity in acknowledgment that the significant
contributions made by women to every field of American life were largely undocumented
and unknown and deserve to be recognized.
6) The achievements of the women who have gone before us will enable contemporary women
and men to create tomorrow’s history by working toward an end to physical and sexual
violence against women, discrimination and harassment in employment and education, and
the relegation to poverty status of many women.
7) Women’s History Month is now commemorated throughout the nation by states, schools,
historians, and community groups, providing an opportunity to focus attention on the
historical role and accomplishments of women so all can benefit from an awareness of these
contributions.
8) Women’s History Month will be not only a call to acknowledge the outstanding American,
and in particular, Californian, women whose names we know, but also a call to pay homage
to the many women who have anonymously shaped our collective past.
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FISCAL EFFECT: This resolution is keyed non-fiscal by Legislative Counsel.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by: Michael Erke / RLS. / (916) 319-2800