One of the group’s members, Molly Murphy MacGregor, participated in The Women’s History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, the place others were impressed to start their own week celebrations, according to the group’s web site. By 1986, 14 states had already declared March as Women’s History Month. Women’s History Month began as a neighborhood week-long celebration in Santa Rosa, California in 1978, based Carrer News on the web National Women’s History Museum. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women planned the week and timed it with International Women’s Day. The …