International Women’s Day is rooted in the radical call for women’s rights, finding its feet at the turn of the 20th century and celebrated from New York to St Petersburg. Since officially commemorating the day in 1975, we’ve entrusted the UN with broadening its international reach and setting an annual theme for the continual drive towards intersectional gender equality. Though, recent years have been different.

In this blog, project participant, Eleanor talks about the process of co-designing the EmBody to EmPower resources, the key aims of the project, and her hopes for how the resources can be used by young women accessing healthcare in Scotland.

In this post, Guest Blogger Maria Onatt discusses how current Green New Deals do not consider the gendered effects of climate change, and why they must take an intersectional feminist approach in order to create a sustainable future for all women.

In this post, our Research and Policy Lead Rebecca discusses the proposed Ecocide (Prevention) (Scotland) Bill, young women’s attitudes towards ecocide, and the importance of capturing gender-sensitive, intersectional data to properly understand the impacts of ecocide in Scotland and around the world.