Pursuant to Proclamation No. 224 s. 1988 declaring the first week of March of every year as Women’s Week and March 8 as Women’s Rights and International Peace Day; Proclamation No. 227 s. 1988 providing for the observation of the Month of March as Women’s Role in History Month; and Republic Act (RA) No. 6949 s. 1990 declaring March 8 of every year as National Women’s Day, the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) leads the observance of the National Women’s Month from March 1 to March 31 of every year.
With the 2017-2022 NWMC theme: “We Make CHANGE Work for Women”, the celebration highlights the following: