One of the group’s members, Molly Murphy MacGregor, participated in The Women’s History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where others had been impressed to begin their own week celebrations, according to the group’s web site. By 1986, 14 states had already declared March as Women’s History Month. Women’s History Month started as a local week-long celebration in Santa Rosa, California in 1978, based on the net National Women’s History Museum. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women planned the week and timed it with International Women’s Day. The date of…