International Women's Day is celebrated every year on 8 March. Thousands of events are held throughout the world both to inspire women and celebrate achievements. The University of Southampton is pleased to again host a week-long programme of activities to mark this special event.

In 2015, International Women's Week (IWW) will span Monday 9 to Friday 13 March .  Some activities are being held during the week following.

All IWW events are open to both students and staff at the University, to both women and men, and are free of charge unless stated otherwise. After some events, there will be a voluntary collection for Southampton Women's Aid.

Activities for 2015

Date/Time	Event	Organiser	Location
Friday 27 Feb
12:00-14:00	The value of women in leadership roles with Professor Nicola Woodroofe, Sheffield Hallam University. Lunch provided. Find out more .	Theano	46/2005 (L/T C)
Wednesday 4 March
13:00-16.30	Storyboarding workshop. Find out more . Booking essential.	John Hansard Gallery	John Hansard Gallery
Sunday 8 March
11.00-13.00	Stories worth telling. Poetry/writing Workshop led by Sabrina Mahfouz Find out more .	English	Nuffield Theatre
Saturday 7 - Sunday 15 March
Varies	Fitness classes . Special offer of scheduled classes free of charge all this week including weekends. Come to Jubilee reception. Find out more .	Sport and Wellbeing	Jubilee Sports Centre
Monday 9 March
12:00-14:00	UCU Infostand. Information about gender pay and equality issues, flexible working etc; officers on hand to help with members' queries.	UCU	Outside Staff Club
17.30-19.45	Joint Outreach initiative with Lloyds Register. Guest speakers include Polina Beyvel, Professor of Optical Communications and Networks at UCL, plus representatives from industry. Food available.	ECS Outreach - to book, contact Dr Reena Pau . by Thursday 5 March.	Lloyds Register. Bolderwood
Tuesday 10 March
12:30-13:30	Mind Calm with Victoria Kate. Find out more (fully booked).	Victoria Kate	67/1015 TRoom 1
16:00-18:00	Women in Industry : careers panel with Accenture, IBM, JP Morgan and React Comms. Find out more	Careers and Employability Service	67/1007
Wednesday 11 March
10:30-11.30	Empowering women in Kenya and Uganda - an informal social event around some important work enhancing children's and women's lives in East Africa. Guest speakers are Liz Ollerhead (maternal health) and Lucy Buck ( Child's i Foundation ). Asante Coffee Shop , Romsey will provide the coffee plus craft items from the shop on display.	NETSCC - contact Jane Davy	The Coach House, Chilworth Manor. Getting to Chilworth
12:30-13:30	Mind Calm second workshop  - fully booked	Victoria Kate	67/2013 TRoom 8
17.30	Vagina Monologues . Small entrance fee with proceeds to Southampton Women's Aid and RAG (cocktails). Wear something purple!	Feminist Society	The Bridge
	Fitness classes offer continues up till Sunday. Find out more .	Sport and Wellbeing	Jubilee Sports Centre
Thursday 12 March
12.00-14.00	Zumba (two classes) Find out more	Theano	The Cube
16.30-17.30	Calling the Shots At film school, the gender balance is close to 50/50, but this all but disappears when women move into the workforce. With Shelley Cobb and Linda Ruth Williams. Find out more	Film / English	13/3021
17.30-20.00	Secrets of Stress Free Life with Matt Tofield Find out more	Theano	67/1027
Friday 13 March
10.00-12.00	Gender equality: making a difference. Ahead of the expanded Athena SWAN gender equality charter mark, what should the University's priorities be over the next two years? Conversation café , discussion and networking - with plenty of coffee! Find out more and tell us your own top priorities .	Diversity	Hartley Suite
12.45-13.45	"Buns in Ovens" - the nature of pregnancy reconsidered. Our medical and cultural depiction of pregnancy is that of the 'baby in the tummy' or the 'bun in the oven'. But is there more to pregnancy than bun-baking? Find out more	Elselijn Kingma	Hartley Suite
	Fitness classes offer finishes this weekend Find out more .	Sport and Wellbeing	Jubilee Sports Centre
Tuesday 17 March
19:30-21:30	Money, meaning and metaphors with Prof Nicky Marsh. How the language of financial crisis and austerity shape our understanding of money and control the potential for change. A chance to examine how the human body (often female) is evoked in moments of crisis and why the language of recovery is never the language of change. Find out more .	English, in association with external organisations Cake and Dangerous Ideas Southampton	The Art House , Above Bar (near new cultural quarter)
Wednesday 18 March
12.15 Buffet lunch 13:00-15.45 Talks plus questions 15:50 wine reception You can book for each of these separately.	Campbell Lectures Professor Jane Francis , Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Polar Medal recipient for outstanding contribution to British polar research, and Southampton alumna. Suw Charman-Anderson , Social Software Consultant, co-founder of the Open Rights Group and founder of Ada Lovelace Day. Find out more and book your place Collection for Southampton Women's Aid.	WiSET (Women in Science, Engineering and Technology)	46/2003
Thursday 19 March
11:00-12:00	A perspective on climbing the career ladder in STEMM – what can help? With Philippa Reed, Professor of Structural Materials, UoS	NETSCC - contact Jane Davy	Conference Room, Alpha House, Chilworth Science Park
12:00-13:00	Networking brown bag lunch [bring your own - sandwiches etc available from Chilworth Lattes]	NETSCC - contact Jane Davy	Alpha House, Chilworth
12:00-14:00	Swap shop . An opportunity to refresh your wardrobe at no cost to yourself or the planet! Bring in your pre-loved clothes and accessories beforehand. Find out more	Sustainability Action	The Cube

We will display details of other events as the are notified.  Some details may still change.

If you are organising an event and would like it included here and in other general publicity, please see the separate information for contributors page.

All events are presented on behalf of their organisers in good faith.  Organisers are responsible for content and delivery of individual events.

Make It Happen

All around the world, International Women's Day represents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women while calling for greater equality

Make It Happen is the 2015 theme for the internationalwomensday.com global hub, encouraging effective action for advancing and recognising women.

Southampton Women's Aid

For 2015, many of our events will again be actively supporting Southampton Women's Aid . You may also see collection buckets around the campus.

Since last year's Week, SWA have offered practical, holistic, non-judgmental support to hundreds of women from all backgrounds.

There are also specialist Children and Youth workers.

The Survivor's Handbook provides advice on keeping safe, legal rights and much more. It's available in English and other community languages, and both text and audio formats.

Please help to support this valuable local and national service.

Booking for an event

You can book a place for many of these events beforehand, generally through Eventbrite.

If you later need to cancel, find out how to do so and release your place for someone else.

Celebrating women engineers

It’s been 100 years since women became regularly involved in the engineering industry.

So what are women doing for engineering today and how did we get there?

Find out more with this poster, produced by the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Organising an event?

Are you organising a related activity or event in March? If you would like it featured here, please visit our Information for contributors page for more information.