Queensland Women’s Week and International Women’s Day

Queensland Women’s Week is 3-11 March and includes International Women’s Day on Thursday 8 March.  There’s a range of resources including an editable poster, event invitation, certificate of appreciation and more to help you promote Queensland Women’s Week events in your community.

There’s a wide range of events for Queensland Women’s Week including State Library’s You Me and a Cup of Tea, Brisbane City Council’s IWD Tea and Trivia; International Women’s Week Festival in Noosa, RWNCQ 2018 Queensland Women’s Week Lunch 7/3/2018 and more. You can find a list of IWD events here. And if there are no activities in your area, why not consider holding an event at your library?

Women's Week

This year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) theme is “Leave no woman behind”. The day is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and a call-to-action to progress gender parity with #pressforprogess.

International Women's Day 2018

United Nations focus areas for women are:

• Eliminating Violence against Women – it’s everyone’s responsibility.


• Women’s Leadership and Political Participation


• Economic Empowerment


• Sustainable Development Goals


• Women, Peace and Security


• Gender Responsive Budgeting