We discover ourselves at Ladies’s Historical past Month as soon as once more! (Canada celebrates WHM in October, so annually I have fun in each March and October.) It’s 2026 and girls are nonetheless the butt of the joke, we’re thought-about lesser, and our accomplishments are ignored. However that’s all of the extra purpose to have fun WHM and to deliver these ladies and their tales into the highlight. Onto 2026 Ladies’s Historical past Month and what you’ll discover right here this month!
2026 Ladies’s Historical past Month
Though I’m Canadian, I’ve clearly seen all the pieces the US males’s hockey group has carried out following the Olympics, together with mocking the US ladies’s hockey group. A group who additionally received the Olympic gold medal, and has received extra Olympic gold medals.
My solely takeaway is that males aren’t going to do something for us- and that features sharing our historical past.
Who will you discover right here?
You will see suffragettes, queens, artists, authors, students, playwrights, performers, and extra. I feel that the majority ladies know that all through historical past, ladies have been gifted, courageous, and successful- we had been by no means simply within the background like many would have you ever imagine. All through the month, I can be sharing the tales of various ladies from historical past who’ve led the way in which, ladies that we must always know.
What are you able to do?
All of us should play a task in each Ladies’s Historical past Month and creating the change we wish to see. If you’re inquisitive about something- a specific sport, gardening, chemistry, poetry, Nineteen Fifties television, whatever- spend a while this month trying into ladies in that discipline. They could be pioneers of the sphere, they could be native to you, however their story is simply as essential as the boys’s that’s so usually held up. And share her/their story with somebody. It doesn’t should be on a public discussion board, however inform somebody.
Should you take pleasure in any of my posts this month (or older posts that I can be sharing), please be at liberty to share and ahead with whomever you suppose would have an interest. Additionally, my twice-monthly publication can be free this month (hyperlink beneath)- in case you are inquisitive about supporting my website, please contemplate subscribing for a full yr of unique historical past, e book, and interval drama content material!
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Worldwide Ladies’s Day 2026- 8 March 2026
Please don’t forget- Sunday, 8 March 2026 is Worldwide Ladies’s Day! Should you can, discover a native occasion to attend or discover a group of buddies to have fun the day with. (In my metropolis, you possibly can usually discover occasions through the week earlier than and after IWD, so maintain an eye fixed out.) And keep in mind, in case you are donating to any causes associated to Worldwide Ladies’s Day or Ladies’s Historical past Month, do a fast examine to ensure it’s a respectable organisation.
Need extra ladies’s historical past?
If you need extra ladies’s historical past in your life, these are a few of my favorite posts from the previous couple of years!
Five Women from Canadian History You Need to Know
5 Female Artists You Should Know
7 Notable Women from Ballet History
5 Captivating Royal Mistresses
5 Female Designers You Should Know
