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...
The celestial wife : a novel
Howard, Leslie
Paper Book
A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist community and comes of age in the tumultuous 1960s in this captivating novel inspired by shockingly true events. Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up ...
On Strike Against God
Russ, Joanna
Paper Book
A lost feminist masterwork by feminist and speculative fiction icon Joanna Russ about a lesbian's coming-to-consciousness during the social upheaval of the 1970s. When Esther, an English professor living in 1970s small-town New York, has her first lesbian love affair, the fallout brings...
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 ...
Bluestockings : the first women's movement
Gibson, Susannah
Paper Book
'Sophisticated, rich and skilful . . . highlights the extraordinary place these women carved out for themselves against the odds' New Statesman 'Remarkable . . . The Bluestockings bust out of the pages with unmistakable glee . . . their complexity and...
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
'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE 'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR 'Gripping' NYLON 'Raw' GUARDIAN An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Hey girlfriend I got a...
Thirst : a novel
Yuszczuk, Marina
Paper Book
"Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel." --The New York Times Book Review   It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe's bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the...
Men have called her crazy
Tendler, Anna Marie
Paper Book
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
Fearless beatrice faust: ; sex, feminism and body politics
Brett, Judith.
Paper Book
'Beatrice Faust', said Helen Garner, 'is not scared of anybody.' Faust was the transformative feminist activist, writer and intellectual who founded the Women's Electoral Lobby in Melbourne in 1972. She campaigned for abortion law reform, and thought, talked and wrote about sex and...
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.
Paper Book
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, testing the limits of love and ambition. It's the opening night, but...
Opinions : a decade of arguments, criticisms, and minding other people's business
Gay, Roxane
Paper Book
'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's eyes and, by the end, you see the world differently' Arwa Mahdawi, GuardianSince the publication of the groundbreaking Bad...
Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World
Holten, Emma.
Paper Book
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* WINNER OF THE POLITIKEN LITERATURE PRIZE 2024 'Brilliantly rewrites the history of economic thought to place 'her story' at its heart. A must-read' - Kate Raworth, author of DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS 'One of the most important feminist...
(un)kind
Smith, Victoria
Paper Book
Daughters of Chaos: A Novel
Fawkes, Jen.
Paper Book
Award-winning author Jen Fawkes's Daughters of Chaos is an epic novel about Civil War-era Nashville's "public women," a secret society spanning millennia, and the earth-shaking power of the female. "A beautiful spinning knife of a story that whirls back through the...
A little give : the unsung, unseen, undone work of women
Benjamin, Marina
Paper Book
Sometimes I think that carrying -- other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday -- is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed...
The other side : a journey into women, art and the spirit world
Higgie, Jennifer
Paper Book
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...
Brooke shields is not allowed to get old
Shields, Brooke
Paper Book
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
Slutdom
Caldwell, Hilary
Paper Book
'When women are enjoying better sex, the people they have sex with will too. Sexual equality is good for everyone.' Despite decades of activism, women are still burdened with the effects of slut shaming in everyday life. Finally, there is a book that argues convincingly and...
A Song for Afghanistan : The Diary of a Women's Writing Group
Paper Book
* BBC Radio 4 's Book of the Week* 'A real-time, moving and intimate portrait of a year living under the Taliban, communicated via clandestine WhatsApp messages' DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 'An intimate, courageous chronicle of life as it unfolds under...
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
Chemaly, Soraya
Paper Book
A TRANSFORMATIVE BOOK URGING WOMEN TO EMBRACE AND HARNESS THEIR ANGER FOR LASTING CHANGE 'How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Rage Becomes Her will be good for women. After all, women have...
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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