International Women's Day 2026

International Women's Day 2026 theme is 'Give To Gain'

When we give, we gain.

Together, let's help forge gender equality through abundant giving.

The IWD 2026 Give To Gain Campaign encourages a mindset of generosity and collaboration.

Give To Gain emphasizes the power of reciprocity and support. When people, organizations, and communities give generously, opportunities and support for women increase. Giving is not a subtraction, it's intentional multiplication. When women thrive, we all rise.

Whether through donations, knowledge, resources, infrastructure, visibility, advocacy, education, training, mentoring, or time, contributing to women's advancement helps create a more supportive and interconnected world.

What will you Give to Gain gender equality?

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

Updated February 19, 2026
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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...
On Strike Against God
Russ, Joanna
Ebook
A radical novel of love, gender, and being seen for who you are from the groundbreaking author of The Female Man.   Meet Esther, an English professor. Since her divorce more than a decade ago, she has lived in a kind of limbo--a sexless, cold, and self-contained...
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
*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...
ALICE SADIE CELINE
BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT, SARAH
Paper Book
"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 thought-provoking essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist...
OTHER SIDE
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...
Shakespeare's sisters : four women who wrote the Renaissance
Targoff, Ramie
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * 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...
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...
Daughters of Nantucket : a novel
Gerstenblatt, Julie
Paper Book
"Gerstenblatt's distinctive tale, a triumph in storytelling, celebrates the courage and tenacity of women." --Booklist, starred review Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save...
Watch us rise
Watson, Renée
Paper Book
"This stunning book is the story I've been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power." -Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak "An extraordinary story of two indomitable...

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