International Women's Day 2025

International Women's Day 2025 campaign theme: "March Forward"

For International Women's Day 2025 and beyond, let's March Forward: For ALL Women and Girls.

Let's empower the next generation – youth, particularly young women and adolescent girls – as catalysts for lasting change.

Together, we can be the generation to close the gap to achieve gender equality.

For IWD 2025 let's #MarchForward for a gender equal future and turn promises into progress.

Updated February 10, 2025
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Trailblazer : Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon - the First Feminist to Change Our World
Robinson, Jane
Paper Book
'Jane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon, a Victorian feminist we should all be grateful to, is as entertaining as it is necessary.' - Daisy Goodwin You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith...
Women living deliciously
Given, Florence.
Paper Book
ARE YOU READY TO FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR LIFE? THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A bold and empowering exploration of self-love... Think of it as a winter shot of self-esteem' GLAMOUR ...
The bluestockings : a history of the first women's movement
Gibson, Susannah
Paper Book
In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman--if there were such a thing--would never make a good wife. But a circle of women called the Bluestockings did...
A bookshop of one's own : how a group of women set out to change the world
Cholmeley, Jane
Paper Book
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024 The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement. ...
Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk
Hanna, Kathleen
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want Kathleen Hanna's band Bikini Kill...
Thirst
Yuszczuk, Marina.
Paper Book
In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires, on the run from the Church. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and, most importantly, be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her...
Men Have Called Her Crazy : A Memoir
Tendler, Anna Marie.
Paper Book
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* "This book is so many things I didn't know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny's insipid, predictable, infuriating reign." --Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award...
I'll Just Be Five More Minutes : And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain
Farris, Emily.
Paper Book
A hilariously-honest, heartwarming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35   Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get...
Feminist's Guide to ADHD
Maschke, Janina.
Paper Book
An empowering, feminist guide to understanding and managing ADHD for women, written by a popular millennial doctor with ADHD. ADHD affects women in unique ways. Discover how to deal with it - and how to thrive - in this empowering guide. Whether you have...
Alice Sadie Celine
Blakley-Cartwright, Sarah
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"Obsessed!" --Chloë Sevigny "I am literally obsessed." --Busy Philipps Hailed as "richly intimate" and "wickedly delightful" (The New York Times Book Review), this steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one woman's affair with her daughter's best friend,...
Opinions : a decade of arguments, criticism, and minding other people's business
Gay, Roxane
Paper Book
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has...
(un)kind
Smith, Victoria
Paper Book
The other side : a story of women in art and the spirit world
Higgie, Jennifer
Paper Book
The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette. It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed...
Time of our lives : celebrating older women
Kirkman, Maggie
Paper Book
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden.  The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives...
Shakespeare's sisters : four women who wrote the Renaissance
Targoff, Ramie
Paper Book
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before anyone ever imagined the possibility of...
Tilda is visible
Tara, Jane
Paper Book
All in Her Head : How Gender Bias Harms Women's Mental Health
Pratt, Misty
Paper Book
This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than men--and lays out how the system must change for women to flourish. Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the...
Rage becomes her : the power of women's anger
Chemaly, Soraya L.
Paper Book
***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION*** NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today ***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION*** Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH Rage...
Wing: the compelling new novel from the award winning author
Gemmell, Nikki
Paper Book
An explosive, contemporary literary thriller from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell - Wing is Lord of the Flies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Promising Young Woman. Students from an elite girls' school go on a camping trip into the Australian bush. Four of...

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