1776, Abigail Adams writes, "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."

Some may wonder why there is a need for a Women's History Month. This list of women's achievements in just the last century provide insight.

Also, take a look at Thoughts of an Average Woman for additional Women's History Month insight.

1902 - Australian women get the right to vote in all federal elections.

1917 - Russian Revolution; Soviet women get the vote.

1918 - Canadian women get the vote.

1920 - With the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, U.S. women get the vote.

1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected first woman governor in U.S. (Wyoming).

1949 - Communists establish People's Republic of China; women get the vote.

1963 - Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space.

1966 - Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.

1969 - Golda Meir becomes prime minister of Israel.

1979 - Margaret Thatcher elected first woman prime minister of Great Britain.

1984 - Kathryn Sullivan is first U.S. woman astronaut to walk in space.

1986 - Corazon Aquino elected president of Philippines.

1988 - Benazir Bhutto sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan.

1990 - Mary Robinson is elected President of Ireland.

1993 - Kim Campbell is elected the first woman prime minister of Canada.

1997 - Mary McAleese becomes the second woman in a row to be elected President of Ireland.

1997 - Jenny Shipley is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the first woman to occupy the post.

2003 - Californian Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman to serve as Democratic Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
 

???? - woman becomes the first President of the United States. 

Men's History: men still pretty much control the world.