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Mar 8, 2008 10:12 pm US/Eastern

Gov. Spitzer, Wife Mark Women's History Month

NEW YORK (AP) ― Today is "International Women's Day," and Gov.  Eliot Spitzer and his wife Silda Wall Spitzer are paying tribute to women who played a role in the fight for justice and equality in the U.S.

The Governor says that New York women were and continue to be leaders in the struggle, organizing the historic 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls and tirelessly working to change the Constitution until they won the right to vote less than a century ago.

He noted that New York was the place where the first female doctor was appointed, and where tens of thousands of women first unionized.

He says the list of notable women in New York history is as rich and diverse as New York itself, and proclaimed March 2008 "Women's History Month."

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