International Women’s Day 2021

In order to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) on Monday 08 March, we want you to get involved by showing your support!

IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, and we want to show our support. This year the theme is #ChooseToChallenge, which aims to highlight the importance of challenging gender bias and inequality in order to create an inclusive world. In order to symbolise this theme and demonstrate solidarity, they are inviting people to share an image of themselves raising their hand, examples can be seen here.

We are calling for all staff who would like to show their solidarity to send a picture of themselves raising their hand, with the purpose to create a collage of images of both staff and student which will be shared on our social media platforms.

If you would like to be involved, please send the image of yourself to Maddie.fry@newcastle.ac.uk by Wednesday 03 March.