U.S. Embassy Kyiv Blog

Posted by: Leah Antil, Public Affairs Section Intern

March is Women’s History Month, which honors the achievements of women throughout history. It is a chance for people all over the world to recognize female role models by drawing on their tenacity, courage, and creativity as sources of strength in the extraordinary challenges that face the world today.

In the United States, Women’s History Month began with the official recognition of March 8th as International Women’s Day in the mid 1970s. In 1981, groups united by the National Women’s History Project lobbied U.S. Congress to declare a ‘National Women’s History Week’ that included March 8^th. By 1987, through presidential decree, the week became Women’s History Month, and Congress has issued a resolution for the month every year. This year, the Obama Administration released a report highlighting 50 years of progress.

International Women’s Day has a 100-year history of celebrating women throughout the world. It was originally established in 1911 and celebrated Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, and Germany, when over a million people rallied for women’s rights to vocational training and work, as well as to end job discrimination based on gender. Now, a century later, March 8^th is a day to advocate for political and social awareness of women’s struggles worldwide.  (more…)

Posted by: Marc Gartner, Economic Officer

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

The office of President offers its occupant unrivalled ability to influence the policies and future of the nation. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26^th President of the United States (1901-1909), used his presidential authority to modernize the United States in a way that profoundly improved the commercial climate and the natural environment, which still contributes to the country today.

Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858, and grew up in the dynamic post-Civil War period when the United States rapidly modernized through industrial prowess, commercial and retail innovation and the advent of free media competition throughout the country. He was a political dynamo and scholar at a young age: as an adult in New York, he was a published historian, the state’s youngest representative, an anti-corruption fighter, and elected governor of New York State at the age of 41 in 1899. (His distant cousin Franklin Roosevelt followed a similar path, serving as Governor of New York, then as the 32^nd President of the United States from 1933-1945.) (more…)