international women’s day

It is men who must move from passive ally to active advocate, and actively dismantle the systems and biases that prevent gender equality.

We all know that the climate crisis is also a health and social crisis. But what the research behind TheClimateLoad report confirms is that the climate crisis is also gendered. Climate action is a feminist issue. 

This year, I’m turning the dial towards the fantastical and listing some of the things I’d like for women this IWD

This International Women’s Day will you show up for early childhood educators? In less than two minutes you can send a letter to your local member telling them that Early childhood educators need a pay rise! And they need it now.

Marking IWD, Labor released Australia’s first Status of Women Report Card to highlight where progress on gender equality has stalled. 

As I stand in our Parliament as part of a majority female federal government, I am grateful to the many Labor women who paved the way.

A strong and diverse workforce is essential across the STEM sector to address some of our nation’s most confronting and enduring challenges.

The commercialisation of IWD is symbolic of the continuing inequality that girls and women, in all their diversities, experience worldwide.

Each year for International Women’s Day, we have even more work added to our plates. We write editorials, we organise and attend events, we fight off internet trolls…I’ve decided that this year the men in our office will be writing our IWD editorial.

International Women’s Day is coming up, but many women from diverse backgrounds don’t expect their voices to be included in celebrations.

“We believe that by empowering women to put their health needs at the top of the priority list is part of the change we need to drive to increase gender equity in all aspects of their lives.”

We’ve compiled this list of young climate leaders that need to be on all of our radars, to mark International Women’s Day 2022.