Who are the 2022 Phenomenal Women of West Alabama?

Happy Women’s History Month from Townsquare Media and the Girl, Glow Up Leadership and Mentoring Nonprofit Organization. As we know women have been part of the fabric of history since the beginning of time.

It has been a long road to Women’s History Month which started as Women’s History Week in 1982. Then in “1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month,” according to the Library of Congress. Then during the years 1988 through 1995, Congress passed resolutions to allow the “President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month.

Empowered Women, Empower Women

In March 2022, Townsquare Media will be highlighting women of West Alabama in partnership with Marshae Madison who is the founder and director of Girl, Glow Up Leadership and Mentoring Nonprofit Organization. This group focuses on Women's Empowerment, Community Awareness, Youth Development, and Mental/Emotional Health.

How to Nominate a Phenomenal Woman

West Alabama is a thriving section of Alabama with women creating history at every step. If you know of a woman in Bibb, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Perry, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, and Walker Counties that should be highlighted please let us know. To nominate a phenomenal woman of West Alabama please email Mary K at maryk@townsquaremedia.com

(Source) Click here for more information from the Library of Congress.

LOOK: Milestones in women's history from the year you were born

Women have left marks on everything from entertainment and music to space exploration, athletics, and technology. Each passing year and new milestone makes it clear both how recent this history-making is in relation to the rest of the country, as well as how far we still need to go. The resulting timeline shows that women are constantly making history worthy of best-selling biographies and classroom textbooks; someone just needs to write about them.

Scroll through to find out when women in the U.S. and around the world won rights, the names of women who shattered the glass ceiling, and which country's women banded together to end a civil war.