By Victoria Fitzgerald Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Other highlights
this month include the opening of a Rosa Parks statue, Pakistani
teen hero Malala Yousafzai's message at the U.N. and WeNews' own
satirical readings of anti-feminist writings on March 8. Credit:
Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com on Flickr, under Creative Commons
(CC BY 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)--March is Women's History Month and
organizations are finding various ways to pay tribute. Here is
just a small sampling of highlights. Celebrations kicked off on
Feb. 27 when Rosa Parks became the first black woman to be
honored with a life-size, bronze statue in Statuary Hall in the
Capitol. The statue will join a host of others dedicated to
notable Americans. President Barack Obama joined the ceremony,
saying her act of defiance stirred a movement that allowed him
to be president, The New York Times reported. The statue
captures the "First Lady of Civil Rights" seated in a heavy wool
coat, clutching her purse and staring out of the window, waiting
for the polic