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March is Women's History Month. The other 11 months ... less so.

According to research by Smithsonian magazine, women are vastly underrepresented in history lessons taught in U.S. schools, with one woman mentioned for every three men who are mentioned.

PHOTO: Nurses wearing white Edwardian clothing and sashes reading, Votes for Women, demonstrate in New York in 1913.Ken Florey Suffrage Collection/Gado/Getty Images
Nurses wearing white Edwardian clothing and sashes reading, "Votes for Women," demonstrate in New York in 1913.

Looking at educational standards from 2017, Smithsonian's analysis went state by state because the U.S. doesn't have universal guidelines for social studies instruction. The magazine's report, which sought to examine how women were included in lessons, found that some women's topics merely were tacked on as an "addendum to the main storyline" or that women were just lumped together in non-representative groups.

According to Census data, on March 20 there were 328,596,714 Americans, more than half of whom were female, with a birth occurring about every eight seconds.

Women, who weren't guaranteed the right to vote nationwide until the 19th Amendment was ratified 144 years after the Declaration of Independence and who 243 years after that document was signed are still paid 20 percent less than men for doing the same jobs, give birth to approximately 100 percent of those babies.