International Women’s Day 2025 - Accelerate Action
Women take part in a march to mark International Women's Day in Paris, Saturday March 8,, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) (Michel Euler, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
It’s International Women’s Day!
Today, we celebrate the incredible women that have helped make our lives so great. This year, the theme is “Accelerate Action." The International Women’s Day website says the theme “calls for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face, both in personal and professional spheres.”
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IWD has listed the following strategies that could help this year’s theme of accelerating action:
forging women’s economic empowerment
recruiting, retaining and developing diverse talent
supporting women and girls into leadership, decision-making, business and STEM
designing and building infrastructure meeting the needs of women and girls
helping women and girls make informed decisions about their health
involving women and girls in sustainable agriculture and food security
providing women and girls with access to quality education and training
elevating women and girl’s participation and achievement in sport
promoting creative and artistic talent of women and girls
addressing further areas supporting the advancement of women and girls
For more information on International Women’s Day, you can visit their website here.