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International Women's Day

  • Lauren Laverne, Penny Smith, Mary Anne Hobbs

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: International Women’s Day; The Last Bohemians; Tonight With Andrew Marr

    Women on the radio have come a long way; Maggi Hambling refuses to be told; and Andrew Marr sounds as if he’s still on TV
  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Heat Waves proves patience is a virtue, especially when it comes to megahits

    Rebecca Nicholson
    The Glass Animals hit took the slowest journey to the top spot ever recorded
  • Activists scale a monument in Mexico City to replace a wooden figure with a more permanent version made of steel.

    Human rights this fortnight – in pictures
    Hospitals under fire and hard-won abortion rights: human rights this fortnight – in pictures

    A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from International Women’s Day in Istanbul to ‘kill the bill’ protests in Cambridge
  • Women take part in a rally to mark International Women's Day in Karachi on 8 March 2022.

    ‘Hijab marches’ compete with Pakistan’s International Women’s Day rallies

    Minister says women’s march violates Islamic values, prompting counter-events organised by religious groups
  • The public hanging of witches in Scotland, with a witchfinder (right) being paid, seen in an engraving from 1678.

    Nicola Sturgeon issues apology for ‘historical injustice’ of witch hunts

  • The Duchess of Cornwall poses for a photo with Emerald Fennell at a reception to mark International Women's Day.

    Camilla meets actor who played her younger self in The Crown

  • Child playing

    UK government rejects request by thousands of women to examine childcare costs

  • Medical students from Kamineni Hospitals hold placards as they take part in a rally to create awareness on women's health on International Women's Day in Hyderabad, India

    International Women’s Day marked with events around the world – as it happened

  • Guardian Print Shop
    Own a classic Observer photograph from the Women's Liberation Movement march, 1971

  • ‘Courage and defiance’: female Guardian reporters on the women who inspired them

  • Photographing protest: resistance through a feminist lens – in pictures

  • The age of extinction
    ‘Women of the wild’: the platform giving India’s nature experts a voice

  • The Guardian picture essay
    Black Women Photographers on what International Women’s Day means to them

  • Going places: 10 inspirational female adventurers

  • I know one way to improve women’s lives. It involves giving more men the vote

    Zoe Williams
  • Women still fear for their safety but are louder and more determined than ever

  • National Portrait Gallery boosts female representation with five new self-portraits

  • Corporate feminism must realise the movement for women’s safety must include and be led by Blak, disabled, trans and people who rely on the welfare system to live.

    International Women’s Day is blind to the greatest threat to women – Australia’s welfare system

    Kristin O'Connell
    Australia’s welfare system is deeply imbued with misogyny and far too often traps women in unsafe situations
  • Young women from Vanuatu cool off in the Pacific Ocean

    Showcasing Australian female and non-binary photographers – in pictures

    On International Women’s Day, Australian Women in Photography has launched AUSWIP, an online database of established professional Australia-based female and non-binary photographers
  • demonstration at New Scotland Yard

    Police must call out sexism in force, says chief taking on violence against women

    Job can attract coercive men, says new national lead, and officers must be ‘upstanders, not bystanders’
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