An Open Letter from Training Secretary Miguel Cardona and Deputy Secretary Cindy Marten on Ladies’s Historical past Month

It’s Ladies’s Historical past Month, and this 12 months’s nationwide theme—Celebrating Ladies Who Inform Our Tales—honors ladies of every age and backgrounds who form and proportion the tale of The us, whilst increasing our figuring out of the human situation and strengthening our connections with each and every different and our global.   

Over generations and now, each day, ladies are casting off obstacles and paving the best way for a extra simply and equitable long run, whether or not they serve in school rooms or communities, lead their very own companies or board rooms, make new discoveries in laboratories, or paintings in any box of undertaking.   

Ladies’s Historical past Month—and World Ladies’s Day—give us a distinct alternative to recognize and have a good time the contributions and achievements of the trailblazing ladies who’ve faithful their lives to creating the sector a greater position.   

Our country’s educator personnel is made up of a majority of girls—about three-quarters of our country’s academics. Particularly over the previous couple of years and as our colleges and scholars proceed to get better from the pandemic, our academics have formed a formidable narrative … that training is central to the well being, wellbeing, and educational expansion of our adolescence and the prosperity of our communities and our nation.  

On the Division, we imagine within the energy of the voices of academics; development an impressive and numerous educator personnel; increasing alternatives for trainer management; and selling higher educator pay, running prerequisites, skilled building, and retention methods.   

Ladies play a central position within the paintings of the U.S. Division of Training, too.   

Greater than 60 p.c of the Division’s personnel is made out of ladies, who encourage either one of us day-to-day with their dedication to elevating the bar on what it manner to be a public servant, dressed in many hats at paintings, at house, and of their communities, and not wavering of their carrier to attaining our necessary venture of increasing instructional excellence and fairness for all.  

And whilst ladies proceed to form the tale of this country, we will’t put out of your mind that there’s nonetheless a lot paintings to be carried out to succeed in complete gender equality. We’re heartened by way of the growth we’ve made as a rustic and once we consider the transformative alternate that the following era—the scholars these days in our school rooms—will lead!    

In combination, let’s all sign up for in celebrating Ladies’s Historical past Month and World Ladies’s Day by way of honoring the sure affects of girls in our personal lives and the lifetime of our country.    

Let’s replicate at the ways in which each and every folks can give a contribution to making a extra equitable and simply global—whether or not this is thru mentoring and empowering ladies and younger ladies, advocating for better gender equality, or amplifying the voices of girls, each motion has energy.