The History Council of NSW presented two events in celebration of the centenary of International Women's Day.

Fighters, Feminists and Philanthropists: Celebrating 100 Years of IWD 
The first march for International Women’s Day took place in New York in 1911. Australia’s first march occurred in 1928 but women had been demanding change a long time and across the world before then. This symposium will celebrate the many different activists and forms of activism that led to dramatic changes in Australian women’s lives over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

In partnership with Macquarie University and the State Library of NSW

**You can download the symposium programme from the right hand column.**

The Next Hundred Years
The first wave thought the vote would do it, the second that laws and equal opportunities would solve the inequities but we are not there yet, wherever there is. On the one hand, we have made a lot of changes in the last hundred years but now we seem to be stalled. Do we need to rethink again?

On the centenary of International Women's Day, the History Council of NSW and Macquarie University present this lecture by Eva Cox, well known academic and feminist.

 
In partnership with Macquarie University and the Historic Houses Trust NSW