| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| March 1 | Rebecca Lee of Boston, MA becomes the first African American woman to gain a medical degree, 1864 |
| March 2 | Women begin pilot training for the US Navy, 1973 |
| March 3 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee born 1962 |
| March 4 | Jeannette Rankin of Montana is sworn in as the first female member of Congress 1917 |
| March 5 | Lady Isabella Gregory born 1852 |
| March 6 | Eleanor Roosevelt becomes the first First Lady to travel by air to a foreign country, 1934 |
| March 7 | Joyce Steele and Jessie Cooper are the first women to be elected to the South Australian Parliament, 1959 |
| March 8 | Barbara Jo Rubin born 1969 |
| March 9 | Glenda Jackson born 1936 |
| March 10 | Hallie Quinn Brown born 1845 |
| March 11 | Mme. d'Epinay born 1726 |
| March 12 | Annette Adams born 1877 |
| March 13 | Susan B. Anthony dies at age of 86, leaving her $10,000 estate to the cause of woman suffrage, 1906 Corinne Claiborne "Lindy" Biggs born 1916 |
| March 14 | Lucy Hobbs Taylor born 1833 |
| March 15 | Margaret Webster born 1905 |
| March 16 | Aviator Margie Hurley becomes the first woman to break the 300 mph airspeed barrier, 1947 |
| March 17 | St. Patrick's Day Jate Greenaway born 1846 |
| March 18 | Bonnie Blair born 1964 |
| March 19 | "Moms" Mabley born 1897 |
| March 20 | Yoko Ono marries John Lennon, 1969 |
| March 21 | Debi Thomas becomes the first African American women to win the gold medal in a world skating competition, 1986 |
| March 22 | Phyllis McGinley born 1905 |
| March 23 | Virginia and Leonard Woolf establish the Hogarth Press, 1917 |
| March 24 | Dorothy Stratton born 1899 |
| March 25 | Higucki Ichiyo born 1872 |
| March 26 | Louise Otto born 1819
Bertha Van Hoosen born 1863 - founder of Medical Women's National Association |
| March 27 | Ruth Hanna McCormick born 1880 |
| March 28 | St. Teresa of Avila born 1515 |
| March 29 | Judith Guest born 1936 |
| March 30 | Melanie Klein born 1882 |
| March 31 | Abigail Adams writes to husband John, who is helping frame the Declaration of Independence, "Remember the ladies... [We] will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice." (1776) |