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Birmingham is the only British city selected to join a global women’s campaign for the promotion of international gender equality. Chosen by the Carter Center as 1 of 12 international cities to participate in its Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, which aims to ensure women can access information.
Why do I celebrate International Women’s Day? When this question was posed to me, I paused for a minute. It almost felt like a loaded question. ‘Why’ is IWD an important day for ‘me’ as a British Asian woman? Each year, this day marks a movement of sorts and starts conversations that go on to…
As part of our series on International Women’s Day, we’re exploring how women identify and balance their personal identities. Photographer Nathan McGill – currently based in Birmingham – has been documenting what it means to be a Black woman embodying natural Afro hair; celebrating the beauty of African and Caribbean women through visual representation, in this case, photography.
On the 9th of June 1914, a woman named Bertha Ryland slashed a painting in the city’s art gallery in Birmingham. That became one of the major incidents of the militant suffrage campaign. There are a few other incidents we already know that happened all over the world to establish women’s rights. A hundred years…
International Women’s Day on March 8th provides an important opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements while calling for greater equality. This year’s 2020 campaign theme is #EachforEqual, a message reflecting an equal world being an enabled world.
The BBC has been celebrating women in the media for a special public event to coincide with International Women’s Day. Fierce Women, a day-long event with masterclasses, top tips, and Q&A sessions, was held at the Glee Club in Birmingham.
International Women’s Day is coming up and this year’s campaign theme is ‘Balance for Better‘. The 2019 #BalanceforBetter campaign runs all year long. It doesn’t end on International Women’s Day.
Royal couple Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were in Birmingham on Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, visiting the Millennium Point in Eastside and community projects in Nechells. The engaged couple were at the venue to encourage female students to pursue careers in subjects like science and maths, and inspire young women pursuing STEM careers. During the…
There’s been much talk of broadcast giant Channel 4 relocating to Birmingham from its current home in London, and much of it from the Brum’s creative community. With all the discourse about the media giant potentially moving to the Midlands city (who wouldn’t want to? We are lovely here!) and with it being International Women’s Month, we decided to…
Birmingham women from different backgrounds, ages and abilities have come together to share why they think we still need to #PressForProgress on International Women’s Day. Women from across Birmingham and the West Midlands have been voicing their thoughts and concerns about gender equality while also expressing their hopes and aspirations for the future.