Bill Text: MI HR0244 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: A resolution to declare March 2022 as Women's History Month in the state of Michigan.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-3)
Status: (Passed) 2022-03-01 - Adopted [HR0244 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HR0244-Enrolled.html
house resolution no.244
Reps. Neeley, Pohutsky, Young, Camilleri, Anthony, Puri, Cavanagh, Lasinski, Tate, Brenda Carter, Stone, Kuppa, Witwer, Hertel, Haadsma, Tyrone Carter, Hood, Cynthia Johnson, Manoogian, Scott, Brixie, Breen, Hope, Morse, Rogers, Cherry, Bolden, Koleszar, Steenland, Roth, Sneller, Whitsett, Calley, Cambensy, Farrington, Peterson, Liberati, Coleman, Garza, Jones, O'Neal, Thanedar, Rabhi, Yancey, Clemente, Brabec and Sabo offered the following resolution:
A resolution to declare March 2022 as Women's History Month in the state of Michigan.
Whereas, Michigan women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of Michigan in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; and
Whereas, Michigan women have played and continue to play a critical economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life of Michigan by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside of the home; and
Whereas, Accomplished women in Michigan such as Cora Reynolds Anderson, Lorraine Beebe, Cora Mae Brown, Anna Clemenc, Mary Stallings Coleman, Daisy Elliott, Betty Ford, Martha Griffiths, Marie-Therese Guyon-Cadillac, Erma Henderson, Mildred Jeffrey, Rosa Parks, Elly Peterson, Dorothy Comstock Riley, Anna Howard Shaw, Lucinda Stone, and Sojourner Truth deserve more recognition; and
Whereas, Michigan women have played a unique role throughout the history of Michigan by providing the majority of the volunteer labor force of Michigan; and
Whereas, Michigan women were particularly important in the establishment of early charitable, philanthropic, and cultural institutions in Michigan; and
Whereas, Michigan women of every race, class, and ethnic background served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement. Michigan women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, the peace movement, and other movements which created a more fair and just society for all; and
Whereas, The population of Michigan is fifty-one percent women. Women compose thirty-six percent of the Michigan Legislature. The percentage of women legislators in the House of Representatives is thirty-eight percent and the percentage of women legislators in the Senate is approximately thirty percent; and
Whereas, Despite these contributions, the role of Michigan women in history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued in the literature, teaching, and study of Michigan history; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the members of this legislative body declare March 2022 as Women's History Month in the state of Michigan.
