International Women’s Day

The International Women’s Day Breakfast is an annual event spanning more than 25 years that convenes every year to celebrate Feminism in Boston. The planning committee, chaired by  Mass NOW, includes over 50 partner organizations.

International Women’s Day Throughout the Years

2024: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges

📷 Mayor’s Office

📷 Kathy Lucas

📷 Kathy Lucas

2023: Celebrating the Past, Planning for the Future

📷 Mayor’s Office

📷 Mayor’s Office

Virtual breakfast

📷 Mayor’s Office

📷 Mayor’s Office

📷 Mayor’s Office

📷 Mayor’s Office

📷 Mayor’s Office

2022: Unpacking the 'Shecession': Reimagining a New Workforce for a New World

📷 Kathy Lucas

📷 Kathy Lucas

The International Women’s Day Planning Committee pivoted to virtual breakfast programming for a few years!

Virtual breakfast

2021: Resilience and Regeneration: A Racial Justice and Feminist Recovery

2019: Feminists Take on Immigration: Addressing Root Causes, Urgent Needs, and Long Term Solutions

2018: Speaking Up and Out: Women Reshaping the Media Narrative

2017: Responding to Changing Policies: Engaging Women’s Voices

2016: When Women Set the Agenda: Equal Pay, Paid Family Leave & Childcare

2014: Moving Women’s Wages Forward: Locally & Globally

📷 Kathy Lucas

2015: Making Women’s Rights Real

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📷 Kathy Lucas

2013: Women and Hunger: Putting Food on the Table

2012: Ending Violence Against Women: Pathways to Power, Resilience & Leadership

2011: Unequal Treatment Under the Law: Women in the Criminal Justice System

2010: Women’s Role in the Green Economy

2009: Who Owns Your Food & Water Globally & Locally

2008: Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency: Globally & Locally

2007: Creating Equality in Women’s Health

2006: Shifting the Paradigm: Paths to Women’s Political Leadership in the U.S.

2005: Affirming the Platform for Action

2004: Implications of the World Social Forum for Women’s Lives

2003: Perspectives on Women’s Health

2002: Raising Awareness and Empowering Women Through the Visual Arts

2001: Personal Stories from Working Women from Around the World

2000: RCC-A Panel of International Women

1999: Global Video Conference - A World Free of Violence Against Women Community Forum-Promoting and Celebrating Women’s Human Rights in Mass and Around the World