“Don’t think about making women fit the world - think about making the world fit women.”
On International Women’s Day 2025 we celebrate the potential of women and girls to transform our economies and societies. When women and girls have the chance to fully contribute their talents, they create jobs, drive innovation, and fuel economic growth. Ensuring more and better jobs for women is ensuring a more prosperous world for all.
We share stories of entrepreneurs, community members, caregivers, students -- women -- all overcoming barriers to advance their businesses, livelihoods, and communities.
Women's Day 2025: International Women's Day is celebrated every year on March 8 to honour the achievements of the fairer sex and raise awareness about gender equality. This year, the theme of International Women's day 2025 is, 'Accelerate Action', which is a worldwide call to acknowledge strategies, resources, and activities that positively impact women's advancement, and to support and elevate their implementation.
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.
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.
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.
https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/gender/brief/international-womens-day