International Women’s Day #ChooseToChallenge

International Women’s Day (external site) is on 8 March, and is a day to celebrate women's achievement, raise awareness against bias and act for equality. This year’s theme encourages us to #ChooseToChallenge and work together to help create an inclusive world.

Watch this video of our wonderful NMHS colleagues all raising their hand to show they are choosing to challenge and calling out inequality.

Some of the reasons our staff are choosing to challenge are:

• I challenge a commitment to cultural diversity among our leaders.
• I challenge services to provide easy access to reliable health information in culturally diverse languages and forms.
• I choose to challenge inequality and work tirelessly to empower women to live a life free of violence.
• I challenge the sexual harassment still experienced by women in work and education places around the world.
• I challenge a commitment to making all women feel heard and valued.
• I hope International Woman’s Day will inspire women to challenge and promote a path towards equality, that then will give them an equal voice.

Whichever way you #ChooseToChallenge and celebrate International Women’s Day it opens up discussions about how we might challenge gender stereotypes and provides an opportunity to celebrate the women in our lives and health service.