WHEREAS:    Arkansas recognizes the month of March as Women’s History Month, established in 1987 by Congress to celebrate the contributions American women have made to strengthen the nation since its inception;
 
WHEREAS:    Women’s History Month honors women of every race, status and ethnicity who have challenged the social and legal structures that have kept women’s labor underappreciated and underrepresented throughout history.
 
WHEREAS:    American women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also at the forefront of every major social change movement in history, paving the way for future generations to enjoy the unalienable rights, duties and responsibilities afforded equally to all citizens of the United States of America; 
 
WHEREAS:    Each woman is extraordinary in her own way, proving that women working inside the home, or outside in academia, science, technology, business, labor, governance and more maintain a critical role in every sphere of society;
 
WHEREAS:    When women succeed, their communities prosper;

NOW THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, Governor of the State of Arkansas, do hereby proclaim March 2023 as: 

“WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH”

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed the 23rd day of February, in the year of our Lord 2023.