Gender gap/International Women's Day

Celebrate Women!

Wikipedia hosts 1.7 million biographies. Not even 20% of those are about women. If Wikipedia wants to become the sum of human knowledge, this needs to change. With such a large gender gap, we are far from reaching the goal. International Women's Day is an important moment to remind ourselves of the gender gap for women and all underrepresented groups and to renew our efforts to close these gaps.

This page gathers several events that take place on or around International Women's Day (8 March) and Women's History Month in March 2021, and where the goal is to come closer to closing the gender gap. Do you want to take part? Think about what you want to do and what languages you want to write in. Take a look at the events that are planned below, and sign up!

Do you lack an event to take part in? Solve it the wiki way: organize it yourself! There are many resources you can use, and help to get. See more information below.

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Initiatives

There are several initiatives and campaigns with events on or around International Women's Day. You can find a thorough list.

**Gender Gap Initiatives**
Initiative	Description	Events
WikiGap	Events globally focusing on closing the gender gap on Wikipedia, by writing new articles about prominent women.	List of events
Women in Red	A WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope.	Visible Wiki Women/Art+Activism/Women in Africa
Art+Feminism	An international community that strives to close the information gap about gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet.	List of events
WikiDonne	Cross wikiprojects to increase diversity in content and participation (women, minorities and non- or underrepresented groups)
Wiki Loves Women	The annual contest Tell Us About Her – Women At Work to improve image descriptions. Add structured data to Wikimedia Commons thanks to a dedicated drive and the ISA Tool. Throughout March 2021.	Participate
Les sans pagEs	A French-speaking project focusing on reducing gender biases. In March, initiatives such as 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune 1871 (with a list of women), TinnGO, Women and Science, Multimedia Library of Suresne Edit-a-thon, Unillustrated Women

Events

Feel free to add your own events below, by clicking on this link. See Best practices in scheduling a meeting.

You can also see events on the Diff calendar [1] Some events are one day only, others are the start date for an initiative. Start times where applicable are in UTC, and (00:00) is used when there is not a particular start time.

Wikimedia movement gender gap events are added to this page around February and throughout March every year. Please come back in 2025 to share your events! Meanwhile, for ongoing gender-gap activities and discussions, please visit the Gender Gap Portal. If you are curious about the 2024 March events, please visit this page.

Activities

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