IWD 2025 campaign theme is 'Accelerate Action'
Collectively, we can Accelerate Action for gender equality.
Step forward in solidarity for International Women's Day (IWD) 2025 on March 8 to help #AccelerateAction.
At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum.
Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality. It calls for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face, both in personal and professional spheres.
So, together, let's Accelerate Action to speed up the rate of progress worldwide.
Together, let's #AccelerateAction for gender equality
One of the best ways to forge gender equality is to understand what works and to do more of this, faster.
Accelerate Action is a worldwide call to acknowledge strategies, resources, and activity that positively impact women's advancement, and to support and elevate their implementation.
Significant barriers to gender equality remain, yet with the right action and support, positive progress can be made for women everywhere.
Support the Supporters
And one of the biggest ways to help Accelerate Action for gender equality is to Support the Supporters.
With so many impactful groups across the world delivering critical work that assists women and girls, we can all lend our support in solidarity.
That's why for 2025, IWD sees a big call-to-action for all IWD events to incorporate an element of women-focused fundraising.
From grassroots groups to large-scale bodies, philanthropic entities are working tirelessly to support and advance women and girls. So let's step forward in solidarity and commit to helping these groups #AccelerateAction for IWD 2025 and beyond.
Through IWD GIVING, together let's make March 8 one of the biggest GIVING DAYS of the year. And remember, it's not solely large global charities calling for financial donations on IWD. There are thousands of grassroots charities working tenaciously for women's advancement where funds can be directed as well.
How can you help Accelerate Action?
As individuals, we can all take steps in our daily lives to positively impact women's advancement.
We can call out stereotypes, challenge discrimination, question bias, celebrate women's success, and so much more. Additionally, sharing our knowledge and encouragement with others is key.
Impactful organizations and groups across the world deliver an array of effective strategies, resources, and activity that help #AccelerateAction in many areas including:
- 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
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Everyone everywhere can Accelerate Action
Remember, all IWD is activity is valid.
That's what makes IWD so inclusive, not exclusive.
IWD remains an important opportunity for elevating and amplifying the focus on gender equality.
As such, IWD belongs to all groups, everywhere.
Strike the #AccelerateAction pose
Are you in? Will you help Accelerate Action?
Strike the #AccelerateAction pose to show solidarity.
Encourage others to help accelerate action within their own sphere of influence by sharing your #AccelerateAction image and statement across social media throughout the year using #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction.
Submit your #AccelerateAction image and statement here.
Build on IWD's century-plus history
With well over a century of history and change, the first International Women's Day (IWD) was held in March 1911.
Read more about the IWD timeline here.
Organizations, groups, and individuals worldwide can all play a part - in the community, at work, at home, and beyond.
IWD isn't country, group or organization specific. It's a day of collective global activism and celebration that belongs to all those committed to forging gender equality.
World-renowned feminist, journalist and activist, Gloria Steinem, reportedly once explained: "The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights."
Groups can choose to mark IWD in whatever manner they deem most relevant, engaging, and impactful for their specific context, objectives, and audiences.
IWD is about gender equality in all its forms. For some, IWD is about fighting for women's rights. For others, IWD is about reinforcing key commitments, while for some IWD is about celebrating success. And for others, IWD means festive gatherings and parties.
Whatever choices are made, all choices matter, and all choices are valid.
All activity can help contribute to, and form part of, the thriving global movement focused on women's advancement.
IWD is a truly inclusive, diverse, and eclectic moment of impact worldwide.
Elevate your commitment to Accelerate Action
Send in your #AccelerateAction image and statement to potentially be featured in the IWD Gallery and across the IWD social media feeds throughout the year.
Executive leaders are also invited to submit an IWD 2025 Statement reinforcing how their organization supports a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Plus, send in your #AccelerateAction videos to be featured and promoted.
Share your #AccelerateAction resources with others
Interested in providing relevant professional resources that support the #AccelerateAction campaign?
Submissions are invited throughout the year from suitable partners worldwide for white papers, articles, reports, tools, resources, projects, campaigns, activities, artistic creations, videos and more that support the #AccelerateAction campaign as useful references, to be co-published on the International Women's Day website.
Help others #AccelerateAction through your resources.
Further details and specifications are available upon request.
Step forward in solidarity
So together, let's all help fight the good fight.
Collectively, let's #AccelerateAction for women and girls everywhere.
Join in solidarity and make IWD your day by doing what you can to support and advance women.
So, are you in?
Looking to reflect on the previous IWD 2024 #InspireInclusion campaign theme? Click here.
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