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Friday 8 March is International Women’s Day. In seeking gender parity to overcome historic disadvantages for women, research elucidates paths to equality. Explore ACU’s research contributions.

International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day is also a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Since its origins at the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen 1910, the International Women’s Day commemoration is an event recognised and celebrated by many organisations. In 2024, the IWD organisation's theme is ‘Inspire Inclusion’ and the United Nation’s theme is ‘Count Her In: Invest in Women. Accelerate Progress.’

In seeking gender parity to overcome historic disadvantages for women, research elucidates paths to equality across social, economic, and health disciplines.  ACU’s contributions to research reflect the great benefits from interrogating the concept of inclusion for women and the subsequent progress achieved.

ACU has participated in global research advocating for change :

• A global call for action to include gender in research impact

The ACU Faculty of Health Sciences has published research advancing consideration for women in health and wellbeing programs:

• Auditing the representation of female versus male athletes in sports science and sports medicine research : Evidence-based performance supplements
• Sub-Saharan African women’s views and experiences of risk factors for obstetric fistula : A qualitative systematic review

Many research disciplines have made important contributions to studies surrounding women’s inclusion in sport from sociological and advanced health perspectives:

• The applied sports science and medicine of netball : A systematic scoping review
• Fuelling the female athlete : Auditing her representation in studies of acute carbohydrate intake for exercise

In close alignment with IWD’s origins, ACU research continues to investigate and provide pathways to women’s advancement and the goal of gender parity in work:

• Widening the aperture : Using visual methods to broaden our understanding of gender in the outdoor profession
• Gendered pathways toward STEM careers: The incremental roles of work value profiles above academic task values

ACU research continues to expand our global understanding of the problems and solutions to gender parity in many realms. This International Women’s Day explore these full texts and much more from ACU researchers. The institutional repository, ACU Research Bank, has a wide variety of open accessible research publications.