March is Women’s History Month and right now we see more history being made. For the first time, a woman is vice president of the United States of America, but Kamala Harris is also the first Black American, first Asian American, first child of immigrants to hold the second highest political office in our country.
But there is still room for more. There has never been a woman US President, a female secretary of Defense; a Secretary of Veterans Affairs and a Black female on the US Supreme Court. But that could change if President Joe Biden has his way.
And there is another kind of change this year. The U S mint will recognize five history making women on quarters: Poet Maya Angelou; astronaut, Dr. Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, Nina Otero Warren, A New Mexico suffragist and actress Anna May Wong.
As the old commercial used to say, “We’ve come a long way baby.” But we still have a long way to go, in some areas.
How did all this happen? Because women did what lawyer Florynce Kennedy espoused, “Don’t agonize, organize.” It is a message that still resonates during the Women’s History Month.