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International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March every year.

It is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.

IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. IWD is not country, group or organisation specific.

Given “women directed a record number of 2020 films” (Women represented 16% of directors working on the 100 highest-grossing films in 2020, Variety), how can we ensure that we give greater voice to women on our screens?

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Women Directed Record Number of 2020 Films, Study Finds

The 25 Best Films Directed By Women of the 21st Century

Triple F-rated Films

F-Rating

Year of the Woman - Empowered Voices

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK

On the Representation of Disabled Women in Cinema

Black Women Directors

18 Awesome Lesbian Movies Where No One Dies at the End

The 100 greatest films directed by women

50 Essential Feminist Films

Women Make Film

Reel Equality Film Club

WOW Women’s Film Club

Women in Film & TV - the leading membership organisation for women working in creative media

Evidencing Gender Inequality in the Arts

By Nesta

Nesta has written this piece looking at gender inequality in the arts looking at under-representation.

Rural community film exhibition in Wales

By Bigger Picture Research

This is a report called “Rural Community Film Exhibition in Wales” by Bigger Picture Research.

Cut Out of the Picture: A study of gender inequality among directors within the UK film industry

By Directors UK

Directors UK today urges the film industry to take decisive action to tackle the issue of gender inequality among film directors in the UK, calling for 50% of publicly funded films in the UK to be directed by women by 2020. This call comes off the back of a new report commissioned by Directors UK, which shows that the … More

#PressForProgress: Evidencing gender inequality in the arts

By Nesta

Many women still feel invisible in the arts – underpaid and under-represented. We need to adopt more innovative ways of tracking gender balance.

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK

By University of Southampton

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015 is a large Arts and Humanities Research Council funded (£589,710) four-year project researching and writing the contemporary history of women working in the UK film industry.

Websites, organisations and charities (UK-based)

By The F-Word

A list of contemporary, UK feminist organisations.

F-Rating

By Bath Film

The F-Rating is applied to films by cinemas and film festivals giving moviegoers an easily identifiable label so they can choose films that fairly represent women on screen and behind the camera. Highlighting these films sends a clear message to distributors, producers and funders that women can and should have more than just a supporting … More

UK gender inequality as bad as 10 years ago, EU league table shows

By The Guardian

Britain ranks alongside Slovakia and the Czech Republic in gender equality index as having made no progress in range of fields.

How life for women in Britain is getting tougher

By The Guardian

The UK has dropped down a global scale of gender equality to 26th place. Where is the government going wrong – and how can we fix politics, pay and promotions?

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