International Women's Year

International Women's Year (IWY) was the name given to 1975 by the United Nations. Since that year March 8 has been celebrated as International Women's Day [ [http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/womenday/ International Women's Day] ] , and the United Nations Decade for Women, from 1976-1985, was also established.

International

The first World Conference on Women was held in Mexico City from June 19 - 2 July 2. It was attended by the following people, among others:
* Australia: Elizabeth Reid and Margaret Whitlamcite web | url = http://www.naa.gov.au/fSheets/fs237.html | title = International Women's Year, 1975 | work = National Archives of Australia | accessdate = 2007-07-15 ]

An "International Women's Year Tribune" was also organised and attended by 4,000 women in 1975.cite web | url = http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1453.html | title = 1st World Conference on Women, Mexico 1975 | work = Choike, Third World Institute | accessdate = 2007-07-15 ]

National

* Australia — a conference on 'Women and Politics' was held in September, attended by 700 women. [cite web | url = http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/pubs/occa_lect/transcripts/290906/index.htm | author = Marian Sawer | title = Red, White and Blue, What Do They Mean to You? The Significance of Political Colours | date = 29 September 2006 | accessdate = 2007-07-15 ]
* New Zealand — In June a United Women's Convention was held in Wellington. [cite web | url = http://www.democrit.net/IWY/Forum1975.htm | title = Forum 1975 | accessdate = 2007-07-15 ]

United States of America

* "Greater Cleveland Congress", October [cite web | url = http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=IWYGCC | title = INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S YEAR, GREATER CLEVELAND CONGRESS | work = Case Western Reserve University | accessdate = 2007-07-15 ]
* Connecticut, 11-12 June 1977 [cite web | url = http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/IWY/MSS19860003.html | title = International Women's Year Conference Records | work = Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut | accessdate = 2007-07-15 ]

Outcomes

As a result of the international focus on Women in 1975, a number of institutions were established:
* International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
* United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
* International Women's Tribune Centre, 1976 [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:LvUbQ5Gg40MJ:www.iwtc.org/+%22International+Women%27s+Year%22+site:iwtc.org&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au&client=firefox-a]
* Women's Studies Resource Centre was established in South Australia during July. [cite web | url = http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=677 | title = Women's Movement page 6 | work = "SM Memory", State Library of South Australia | accessdate = 2007-07-15 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/womenday/ International Women's Day] on United Nations
** [http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/iwd/ International Women's Day] feature on the UN WomenWatch site