The Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia is celebrating the United Nations-designated International Women’s Day which, this year takes place on Saturday 8 March.
SCLAA events taking place around Australia include:
- WA – International Women’s Day Breakfast – “Women in Logistics; A female perspective on how to build a successful career,” Friday, 7 March 2025; Direct Couriers, 8 Bradford Street, Kewdale WA
- VIC – International Women’s Day Breakfast – “‘From Warehouse to Boardroom’ Women Driving Supply Chain Success,” Thursday 6 March 2025, The Terrace, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
- Panellists: My Therese Blank, head of ocean products Oceania at Maersk; Tina De Angelis – category manager Qantas Group Procurement; Katharina Zink Attana – General Manager MCM; and moderator Tabitha West – founder & principal, Reimagine Talent
- QLD – International Women’s Day Breakfast – “Accelerate Action,” Friday, 7 March 2025, Linda’s Cafe, 136 Oxford St, Bulimba
- NSW – Annual Industry Lunch – Strangers’ Dining Room, NSW Parliament House, 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney – Friday, & March 2025
- Presenters: Lisa Qua – serial entrepreneur and commercial growth strategist; Maureen Jordan – Switzer Financial Services / Switzer Group; Nick McArdle – ambassador for Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Women’s Shelter.
A variety of promotional and sponsorship opportunities are available. Interested readers should contact the appropriate branch of the SCLAA for further details. Details of promotional and sponsorship opportunities for the NSW Annual Industry Lunch can be found here.
International Women’s Day – a backgrounder
Designating days as weeks an “International Day of…” long predates the foundation of the United Nations in October 1945, but the body has adopted the practice as an awareness-raising and advocacy-tool.
Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women’s Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe.
In the United States In 1848, Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were angry that women were barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention. They gathered a few hundred people at their nation’s first women’s rights convention in New York to demand civil, social, political and religious rights for women in a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.
According to the UN, the choice of 8 March is linked to the women’s movements during the 1917 Russian Revolution. The UN writes that women in Russia protested for “Bread and Peace” on the last Sunday in February on the Julian calendar (which corresponds to 8 March on the Gregorian calendar). Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. The “Tsar” was an Emperor-like title; the Tsars were autocrats with absolute power.
