International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Click on the links below to see find out more about women related to each of our subjects:
Accounting
Women in Accounting & Finance | Industry Insights
Foundation Art Diploma
Barbara Hepworth
Fine Art
Tracey Emin on ambition and ageing | FT Life
Biology
Rosalind Franklin: DNA’s unsung hero – Cláudio L. Guerra
Andrew Marr interview with vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert
Business
5 Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets To Success | Refinery29
The Story of Anita Roddick | Anita Roddick | British businesswoman | The Greats
Deborah Meaden | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union
The Incredible Rise of a Cosmetic Giant | Madam C.J. Walker
Maxine Clark, Chief Executive Bear on Leadership
Chemistry
Women in Chemistry: Stephanie Kwolek
Childcare
Malala Yousafzai
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24440653
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03knzmz
Maria Montessori: Theory & Contributions to Education
Computer Science
Grace Hopper: March 6, 1983: Grace Hopper—She taught computers to talk
Margaret Hamilton – Margaret Hamilton – 2017 CHM Fellow
Criminology
Let’s talk about violence against women | Lily Banda | TEDxLilongwe
Valedictory ceremony for Lady Hale
https://www.supremecourt.uk/watch/valedictory/lady-hale.html
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Fight to End Gender Discrimination
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks About the Fight To End Gender Discrimination | Glamour
Dance
Katherine Dunham:
Drama & Theatre Studies
Emma Rice on Directing Theatre
Emma Rice – Theatre Director – working together
Emma Rice – Acceptance Speech – UK Theatre Awards 2019
Prebble (director and playwright) and Billie Piper on the representation of women on screen.
Women in Theatre: Audra McDonald
Josette Bushell-Mingo has been appointed principal of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, becoming the first black person to hold the post in its history – video is a discussion of how she directed The Tempest with a diverse group from deaf and hearing actors.
The Tempest at Citadel Theatre (Trailer)
Economics
https://learn.mru.org/women-economics-series/ A series of profiles of leading thinkers in the subject
Women in Economics project
https://youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries%3Flist%3DPLt9jC4Ylzr6CmS0hWyQzOlypqSkvRMKKs
Esther Duflo First women to win Nobel Prize in Economics
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RqhW_0H7kw8%3Ffeature%3Doembed
English Language
Gendered linguistics:
Margaret Atwood on writing:
English Language & Literature
Bronte Sisters: The Brilliant Brontes – documentary
Michelle Obama:
Maya Angelou:
English Literature
Margaret Atwood:
Angela Davis author of Women, Race and Class
Caro Ann Duffy:
Film Studies
Andrea Arnold at Cannes
Celine Sciamma on the Female Gaze
Kathryn Bigelow:
Patty Jenkins:
French
Simone Veil
Games Design
Amy Hennig
A TED Talk analysis of women in video games
Strong Women in Video Games
Geology
The true story of Mary Anning: The girl who helped discover dinosaurs | BBC Ideas
Geography
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey on London
Politics
US Vice-President Kamala Harris
Graphic Design
April Greiman: “If you have a good idea there aren’t any boundaries.”
Jessica Walsh – Like Knows Like
Short and personal documentary about Jessica Walsh who is a designer, art director and illustrator working in New York City. She is a partner at design studio Sagmeister & Walsh and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has won numerous design awards. Recently, Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights of her viral side-project called “40 Days Of Dating”
First five minutes.
Jessica Walsh – Like Knows Like
Health & Social Care
Florence Nightingale
More than just nurse. If you google her you see �?statistician’ in her occupation
Marie Curie: The genius of Marie Curie – Shohini Ghose
Article about the role women scientists have played in fighting Covid 19
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/female-scientists-covid-19-vaccine
https://malala.org/malalas-story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/seacole_mary.shtml
Prof. Sarah Gilbert – Project Leader for the COVID-19 Oxford vaccine Oxford research team leader on vaccine’s benefits
International Women’s Day 2018: Mannya Nurse Jean
Who: Jean Namatova, Nursing Officer and Assistant in charge at the Mannya Health Care Centre in Uganda
Why: For her hard work developing a better healthcare system
In 2007, the Cotton on Foundation arrived at Mannya village. Known to be an area rife with HIV/AIDS and deemed “mission impossible” by its local diocese, Mannya was a community in need of help. A lack of education, basic infrastructure and healthcare facilities had led to a village in desperate need of a helping hand.
In 2009 the foundation completed the build of a new healthcare centre, and in 2012, a new maternity ward was opened. Jean has played a vital role in the development of these new healthcare centres and has helped build a better healthcare system in the village.
History
Sophie Scholl, Nazi resistance and the White Rose Movement
IT
Steve Shirley – Freelance Programmer: the story of Dame Stephanie Shirley
Jean Bartik and the ENIAC Women
Law
Baroness Hale, the first female President of the Supreme Court of the UK
Interview with Joanna Hardy, one of the UK’s Leading Junior Criminal Barristers
The law is male | Baroness Helena Kennedy QC | TEDxGlasgow
Maths
Katherine Johnson – NASA Mathematician
Ada Lovelace – English Mathematician & first computer programmer
The women of Bletchley Park – codebreakers during WWII
Media
Kathryn Bigelow Oscar Win
Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days – Best Film You’ve Never Seen
Conversation with Patty Jenkins (director of ‘Wonder Woman’)
Women in the Media – TED Talk
Music
Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit
https://www.classical-music.com/features/artists/six-most-inspiring-women-music/
Music Technology
Olga Fitzroy
Catherine Marks
Sylvia Massey
Photography
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/hannah-starkey-2683/hannah-starkey-important-moment-women
Cindy Sherman: Fashion | Art21 “Extended Play”
PE
Dina Asher-Smith- Achieving dreams … by fearing failure
Simone Biles pursuing history at Tokyo 2020 | Top Performers
https://kathrineswitzer.com/1967-boston-marathon-the-real-story/embed/#?secret=hD5EKwGHWJ
Physics
Inspiring Female Scientist: Physicist Laura Sampson
Mae Jemison: I Wanted To Go Into Space
International Women’s Day – Caroline Herschel
The genius of Marie Curie – Shohini Ghose
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-pulsars
Psychology
Christina Maslach on “The Stanford Prison Experiment”
Eleanor Maccoby on “The Psychology of Sex Differences”
Anna Freud – Ego Defense Mechanisms – The Cure Part 3
Cleverly Connected: Tanya Byron at TEDxCheltenham
The Jane Elliott experiment on racism in the classroom
Public Services
Michelle Norris – Military Cross
Lt Col Lucy Giles: Woman of the Year and Inspirational Award Winner 2016
Religion, Ethics and Philosophy
Philosopher Queens: Discovering forgotten female thinkers
A summary of the philosopher Phillipa Foot’s Trolley Problem and an explanation of how it can be applied to modern technological dilemmas e.g., driverless cars.
Eleanor Nelsen: Would you sacrifice one person to save five?
Alice Walker reads Sojourner Truth – Ain’t I a women?
Womanist theology
Sociology
The Beauty Myth – Excerpt from DVD
Emma Watson at the HeForShe Campaign 2014 – Official UN Video
Emmeline Pankhurst Hartford Speech November 1913 | Suffragettes | 4 Minute History
Let’s talk about violence against women | Lily Banda | TEDxLilongwe
Sociology graduate Michelle Obama:
Michelle Obama’s Best Advice For Students | How To Succeed In Life
Spanish
Clara Campoamor was the first female Spanish MP and who also fought and won the right to vote for Spanish women in 1931:
Clara Campoamor, primera diputada de España – Ellas Más
Textiles & Fashion
Vivienne Westwood
The Fashion Awards 2020 | Priya Ahluwalia
Female figures from the local area
https://web.archive.org/web/20210311111653if_/https://forgottenwomenwake.com/embed/#?secret=oYcOu8Q9g6
