International Women's Day
In line with the College’s values and commitment to promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, each year we celebrate key diversity events including International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March.
International Women's Day 2026
As part of our upcoming Women's Mental Health Strategy, this year we celebrate International Women's Day with two fantastic, free online events including a world first 24 hour global webathon on women's mental health.
Women's Mental Health in Bloom 24hr Global Webathon – 7 March 2026
Through this exciting, new international collaboration of leading psychiatric organisations across seven global regions, we aim to raise awareness, call for collective action and celebrate International Women’s Day 2026.
Choose a topic, find your time zones and join other professionals in mental healthcare across the globe to learn about, promote and defend equity for women.
Free Members' Webinar – 5 March 2026
Over the last decade, we've been rightly concerned about men's mental health. Men continue to take their own lives at a three times the rate of women. However, women are suffering too, and the size and nature of the mental health problems and illness they experience seems to get lost beyond that desperate headline.
Under a mental health policy that is largely 'gender-free' what has been happening to women? How are we failing them and what do we need to do about it?
IWD 2025
As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, join us for this important discussion where we consider what we know and see relating to the increasing prevalence of mental health issues in girls and young women, the importance of parental support and how psychiatry can work with individuals, families and organisations to offer the best support.
We are delighted to be joined by speakers Professor Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, Matilda Gosling, Dr Raka Maitra and Dr Su Sukumaran, with co-chairs Dr Stella Kingett and Dr Philippa Greenfield.
IWD 2024
In 2024, the IWD campaign theme was Inspire Inclusion. We planned a range of activities that helped us to celebrate women's achievements and raise awareness about women's equality and gender parity.
We also published the results from an alarming survey that revealed violence and abuse are driving mental illness in women and girls.
In addition to holding a webinar on Still the Second Sex? Data, Disaggregation and Discrimination, we also recorded a podcast. This featured our Presidential Leads for Women and Mental Health Dr Philippa Greenfield and Dr Catherine Durkin hosting a conversation that looked at the specific determinants and risk factors that impact disproportionately on women’s mental health, and much more.
Additionally, Dr Stella Kingett wrote a blog post reflecting on her first year as Chair of the Women and Mental Health Special Interest Group (WMHSIG) and her time spent 'listening to inspirational women and finding the data'.