The International Women’s Day is to be marked tomorrow.

Under the theme ‘Accelerate Action,’ the women are pushing for rapid advancements in gender equality. The 2025 theme focuses on recognizing strategies and tools that drive women’s progress in education, employment, and leadership.

Proponents believe though significant barriers to gender equality remain, with the right action and support, positive progress can be made for women everywhere.

With well over a century of history and change, the first International Women’s Day (IWD) was held in March 1911. It’s a day of collective global activism and celebration that belongs to all those committed to forging gender equality.

WAN-IFRA WIN has announced it will mark this year’s IWD by launching the WIN Guild’s Leadership Pledge and the Leadership Mapping Report, aligned with the #AccelerateAction theme.

Platform for action

“WIN uses this day as a platform in our call to action and commitment to move beyond rhetoric to action on the push to break barriers, build more inclusive workspaces and drive systemic change. These resources aim to inspire the media industry to commit to making real progress in the face of glaring gaps in gender equality and inclusion,” WIN said.

It added: “To mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025, themed #AccelerateAction, members of the WAN-IFRA WIN Guild, a collection of top editors and publishers from the Women in News (WIN) community, have committed themselves to a series of collective and individual actions to move the dial on gender equality in newsroom leadership. The pledge is in response to WAN-IFRA WIN’s latest findings that fewer than 1 in 5 CEO/Publisher roles worldwide are held by women, while just under 1 in 3 Editor-in-Chief/Editorial Director positions are occupied by women.

WAN-IFRA WIN (Women in News) is a leading global programme founded in 2010 by WAN-IFRA to advance gender equality and inclusion in the media industry.Working with media organisations, industry leaders, and journalists alike, WIN is now active in more than 30 countries across Africa, Southeast Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and the Arab Region.

The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and Wikimedia has also launched an online campaign to honour volunteers who contribute in developing content for the organization.

 The campaign, dubbed Knowledge is Human, Knowledge is Her, which coincides with the International Women’s Day will celebrate contributors across the globe who develop content surrounding women.