8 Great Ways to Celebrate Women's History Month Right Now

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At IGN, we're excited to observe women successful our past and manufacture who create, inspire, empower and marque affirmative alteration successful this world; not conscionable this month, but each month. We anticipation you'll articulation america successful continued learning, celebrating and elevating women’s voices. Here's everything to cognize astir Women's History Month and immoderate large ways to observe this March.

The History Behind Women's History Month

Women's History Month began arsenic a petition by the National Women’s History Project successful 1987, with a intent to "celebrate the contributions women person made to the United States and admit the circumstantial achievements women person made implicit the people of American past successful a assortment of fields."

Did you cognize Women’s History Month really began arsenic “Women’s History Week" during the week of March 7 successful 1982? It wasn't until 1987 that this taste lawsuit would go a month-long, nationalist celebration. Efforts continued successful bid to support Women's History Month recognized, and each President since 1995 "have issued a bid of yearly proclamations designating the period of March arsenic Women’s History Month.”

TL;DR - 8 Ways to Celebrate Women's History Month

Learn About Women successful History and Share Their Stories
Support Women-Owned Businesses and Professionals
Watch Movies oregon Shows Directed by Women
Read Books Written by Women Authors
Play Games Created by Women
Listen to Podcasts Featuring Women
Volunteer astatine Women-Based Organizations
Donate to Programs and Organizations Uplifting Women

1. Learn About Women successful History and Share Their Stories

You tin research women's stories successful past each crossed the web, from inventors to leaders and beyond. Great places to commencement see museums and their website archives similar Smithsonian, organizations tally by women specified arsenic StoryCorps, and trusted history-based publishers specified arsenic The History Channel.

2. Support Women-Owned Businesses and Professionals

From artists to streamers and beyond, determination are truthful galore ways to enactment women successful business. You tin store online from the comfortableness of your location connected sites similar Etsy, and browse Women Owned Business Directories similar WBD, oregon FoundedByHer arsenic go-to resources for discovering awesome entrepreneurs. There’s adjacent a mode to filter connected Amazon to store women-owned retailers successful a assortment of categories.

In summation to buying from women concern owners, supporting women successful their vocation maturation is different integral portion of the travel to uplift women. SoundGirls is simply a cleanable illustration of an enactment that exists to supply women successful the circumstantial manufacture (audio) an accidental to "meet and web with manufacture professionals, creating a beardown enactment network.” Anything we tin bash to stock women's occurrence stories, contribute, and dispersed the connection astir organizations that beryllium to connection workshops, networking resources, and beyond, tin each assistance enactment women successful business.

Also see: 14 Great Women Comic Book Writers.

3. Watch Movies oregon Shows Featuring Women oregon Directed by Women

If you don't cognize wherever to start, Hulu has a featured postulation of shows and movies with Black pistillate leads to cheque out, and Showtime has a web called SHOWTIME WOMEN® which "Celebrates women successful beforehand of and down the camera, bringing you the astir unique, daring and groundbreaking films, documentaries and shorts from aspiring and established pistillate talents."

After the 2025 Oscars, determination are plentifulness of deed films you whitethorn privation to drawback up on. One of the biggest winners this twelvemonth was Anora, featuring pb histrion (and Oscar winner) Mikey Madison.

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Here are much ways to watch Anora.

Discover Women Directors

In summation to celebrating women-led roles and actresses, determination are immoderate legendary films to ticker and rewatch including large hits similar Barbie, American Psycho and The Hurt Locker; each directed by women. If you don't cognize wherever to start, streaming sites similar Netflix marque it casual to browse movies directed by women.

Watch Women's Sports

Let's not hide women's sports either. From ESPNW covering large sports, from NWSL, WNBA, NCAAW and beyond, to a full tract dedicated to lone women's sports (fittingly, justwomenssports.com), you can't miss it. We besides privation to outcry retired WOW (Women of Wrestling), who we person partnered with and interviewed astatine events including SDCC. You tin find retired wherever to watercourse WOW here.

Across soccer, basketball, wrestling and beyond, women's sports are becoming much fashionable and we emotion to spot it. Stream astir large events on:

ESPN+

Sign up for a standalone ESPN+ subscription oregon arsenic portion of the Disney Bundle that includes the trio of Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu.

4. Read Books Written by Women

There are truthful galore books written by women to dive into, nary substance what your favourite genre is. In fact, according to BookRiot, “Women present people much than 50% of each books, and person since 2020. The summation successful published books by women has besides travel with a boost for the publication manufacture overall, which boasted a year-on-year summation of 12.3% successful 2021 (if you're curious, publishing made $29.3 cardinal successful 2021). With these stats we spot what we've already known, really, which is that diversifying the publishing manufacture is not lone the close happening to do, but radical besides conscionable truly similar it.”

That said, women authors are everywhere, truthful it's clip to get your speechmaking on! For a powerfully acquisition list, here's 10 books by Black women to adhd to your speechmaking list, too.

Here are immoderate top-rated books by women authors to get you started via Amazon.

Best-Selling Books by Women Authors

Browse Amazon's astir fashionable champion sellers based connected income and updated frequently. From Kindle Editions to paperback.

5. Play and Discover Women-Led Games

Behind respective fantastic games are women creators, devs, directors, designers, writers and more. From Portal to Celeste; to the Uncharted bid and the classical arcade crippled Centipede, determination are truthful galore superb games brought to you by women. Plus, it's adjacent much awesome erstwhile a crippled makes a bigger taste impact, specified arsenic Celeste's Five-Year Journey to Becoming One of the Most Important Trans Games Ever. (If you haven't played this charming, adventure-filled crippled yet, you tin get it oregon download present connected Nintendo.com for $19.99).

You tin browse crippled lists crossed the web featuring women creators, specified arsenic G2A’s database and featured games created by women and games curated by women lists from Microsoft to get you started.

6. Listen to Podcasts Hosted by Women

Whether you're into news, history, comedy, popular civilization oregon transgression storytelling, determination is simply a broad database of podcasts hosted by women retired there. NY Public Radio compiled a database of implicit 100 women-hosted podcasts, truthful spell cheque retired what's determination and whitethorn beryllium caller to you lately connected Spotify, Apple, Amazon, oregon wherever you similar to listen! From immoderate of IGN's ain podcast-listening ladies, we urge the pursuing (in nary peculiar order):

1. You're Wrong About

In You're Wrong About, Sarah is simply a writer obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a idiosyncratic oregon lawsuit that's been miscast successful the nationalist imagination. Listen connected Apple.

2. Ladies & Tangents

If you hatred leaving the location but besides privation to consciousness seen, the Ladies & Tangents podcast is for you. Jeri and Ciara are besties and cousins, acceptable to transportation you done their relatable conversations astir companionship, quality rights and more. Listen connected Apple.

3. Scam Goddess

In Scam Goddess, Laci Mosley keeps you up to day connected the latest scams and "breaks down historical hoodwinks alongside immoderate of your favourite comedians! It’s similar existent transgression lone without each the death! True amusive crime!" Listen connected Apple.

4. Axe of the Blood God

RPG gaming fans tin articulation Kat Bailey, Nadia Oxford, and Eric Van Allen arsenic they research Final Fantasy, Skyrim, and each the champion successful the fantastic satellite of role-playing games in Axe of the Blood God. Listen connected Apple

5. What's Good Games

Another large podcast for gaming fans, articulation What's Good Games' Andrea Rene, Brittney Brombacher and Riana Manuel-Peña arsenic they analyse the latest video crippled quality each week and springiness hands-on impressions of upcoming titles. Listen connected Apple.

6. My Favorite Murder

My Favorite Murder is the archetypal deed existent transgression drama podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. You, too, tin articulation the increasing instrumentality nine of "Murderinos". Listen connected Apple.

7. This Ends At Prom

This Ends astatine Prom is simply a play podcast analyzing the staying powerfulness of womanhood featured successful coming-of-age and teen miss movies from the queer, feminist cisgender and trans perspectives. Hosted by wives BJ Colangelo and Harmony Colangelo. Listen connected Apple.

8. Girlfriend Material

This fabulous "Gay-Z" podcast features comic stories, cheeky chats, and moving moments with drama creator and TikToker Rosie Turner! It doesn't substance wherever you are connected your ain LGBTQ+ travel of discovery, this podcast is for everyone! Listen connected Apple.

9. A Little Queer

Another LGBTQ+ focused podcast, dive into queer culture, advice, and media with your caller BFFs, Capri and Ashley. Listen connected Apple.

10. The Artist In Me Is Dead

"The creator successful you is dead, but what if it’s really lone dormant and you lone request to nurture it backmost to life?" Explore creativity with big Rhonda Willers and guests each Thursday. She besides explores erstwhile radical consciousness astir creative: what are they doing? How bash they pat into their creativity? Listen connected Apple.

11. Conversations With Moon Body Soul

Listen to big and proprietor of Moon Body Soul, Kaitee Tyner arsenic she shares successful topics crossed holistic wellness. If you're getting into self-care and request immoderate inspiration, this is for you. Listen connected Apple.

7. Volunteer astatine Women-Based Organizations

Not definite wherever to start? https://www.volunteermatch.org has a large database to lucifer you with unpaid opportunities. Visit the site, hunt by your metropolis oregon zip code, and find unpaid opportunities. You tin prime "More" from the unpaid class paper to prime "Women" for some virtual and in-person opportunities to assistance women-based organizations successful your area.

8. Donate to Programs and Organizations Uplifting Women

If you're incapable to unpaid your time, see donating to an enactment that means thing to you and the women successful your life. You tin donate straight oregon indirectly depending connected the programme oregon concern you find!

For example, did you cognize our spouse tract Humble Bundle offers an casual and amusive mode to straight donate to causes passim the twelvemonth via gaming bundles? Right now, Humble is besides partnering with CARE for Women’s History Month. When you acquisition a Humble Choice rank this March, 5% of proceeds volition enactment CARE’s programs.

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Mar 9, 2025 12:02 am

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