HR 9089

1	House Resolution
2	A resolution recognizing March as "Women's History Month"
3	in Florida.
4
5	WHEREAS, Florida's women of every race, class, and ethnic
6	background have made historic contributions to the growth and
7	strength of Florida in countless recorded and unrecorded ways,
8	and
9	WHEREAS, Florida's women have played and continue to play a
10	critical economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of
11	the life of the state by constituting a significant portion of
12	the labor force working inside and outside of the home, and
13	WHEREAS, Florida's women have played a unique role
14	throughout the history of the nation by providing countless
15	hours of volunteer labor for the state, and
16	WHEREAS, Florida's women were particularly important in the
17	establishment of early charitable, philanthropic, and cultural
18	institutions in our state, and
19	WHEREAS, Florida's women of every race, class, and ethnic
20	background served as early leaders in the forefront of every
21	major progressive social change movement, and
22	WHEREAS, forty women, twenty-five percent of both the
23	Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate,
24	presently serve the citizens of the great state of Florida as
25	elected members of the Florida Legislature, with thirty women in
26	the Florida House of Representatives and ten women in the
27	Florida Senate; four women serve in the Congress of the United
28	States; and two women serve in the Florida executive branch, and
29	WHEREAS, women have been leaders not only in securing their
30	own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the
31	abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement, the industrial
32	labor movement, the civil rights movement, and countless other
33	movements which create a more fair and just society for all, and
34	WHEREAS, despite these contributions, the role of Florida's
35	and all of America's women in history has been consistently
36	overlooked and undervalued, NOW, THEREFORE,

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