Every March, the University of Louisville Women’s Center publishes a Women’s History Month calendar of events as part of its spring newsletter. It’s a source of event information in the Louisville metropolitan area and is mailed to over 3000 subscribers, available on our website, and distributed on UofL’s campuses. 

If you or your organization plans to sponsor a program concerning women’s issues and would like to list it with the other programs, please let us know.  The calendar will be mailed around February 20.  The deadline for submitting an event is Friday, February 1, 2008.

Please download and fill out this form and return it to the women's center.  Printed below is a letter to all from the National Women's History project. 

"For almost thirty years, the National Women's History Project has worked to "Write Women Back into History." We've used a variety of strategies including spearheading the movement for National Women's History Month, determining the theme, and selecting the honorees. We also provide the educational and promotional materials to help educators, organizers, and work place managers throughout the country make women's accomplishments visible in the schools, communities, and workplaces. Our award-winning website serves as the national clearing house for information related to multicultural women's history.

I am writing to invite you to take the opportunity to help with this vital work by joining our campaign. "Writing Women Back into History" is an important social and cultural effort to encourage girls and boys as well as men and women to respect and honor the hard work and accomplishments of women.

Words like "self-esteem" and "role-model" may seem to be over used until we read the journals and biographies of girls and women. In a world that continues to define women by the way we look, having a variety of role models who have successfully challenged cultural assumptions is critical. The unrelenting courage to believe in ourselves is the essence of women's history. This courage challenges invisibility, which is the number one form of bias. Invisibility limits the way we see ourselves and others. Invisibility reinforces stereotypes, and diminishes expectations and even a sense of possibility. Women's history defies this stereotyping by making women's lives visible.

To honor the originality, beauty, imagination, and multiple dimensions of women's lives, we have chosen Women's Art: Women's Vision as the 2008 theme for National Women's History Month. The history of women and art is quintessential women's history. It is the story of amazing women's accomplishments acclaimed at the time but written out of history. Join us in ensuring that their accomplishments are never forgotten. This year's theme provides a special opportunity to discover and celebrate women's visual arts in a variety of forms and mediums that help expand our perceptions of ourselves and each other.

Please join the National Women's History Project's Writing Women Back into History Campaign. You can donate on-line by clicking the donation button in the left-hand side of their home page at