Women
Women in Unite
International Women's Day - 8 March 2021
8 March was declared International Women’s Day by the United Nations in 1975, but the idea of an international day of women’s solidarity goes back to 1910, when women from fourteen countries meeting in Copenhagen heard a proposal from German socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin that an annual International Women’s Day be held in each country, allowing women to voice local as well as general demands.
Unite represents a third of a million working women across industries and services in a wide range of jobs.
Watch the Unite video for #IWD2020 showing women fighting back in the workplace and winning and look out for more on this year's event.
Unite welcomes progress on women’s equality that has been struggled for and achieved, but is concerned at continuing discrimination, unequal pay, harassment and violence against women, and the under-representation of women in leadership at all levels.
By joining Unite you too can get involved in achieving equality for the diversity of women of all ages.
Contact us
Unite national contacts
128 Theobald’s Road, Holborn, London WC1X 8TN, email us
Siobhan Endean, national officer for equalities, 020 7611 2635
Diana Holland, assistant general secretary, transport - equalities - food, 020 7611 2640
Anooshah Farakish, research officer for equalities, 020 7611 2639
Regional women’s & equalities officers
East Midlands – Jessica Honess (Acting), 0116 253 2020
Ireland - Taryn Trainor, Belfast 028 90 029443 / Dublin +353 (0) 1873 4577
London & Eastern - Carolyn Simpson, 0208 800 4281
North East Yorkshire & Humberside - Sue Pollard, 0113 236 4830
North West - Sharon Hutchinson, 0161 669 8701
Scotland - Lorna Glen, 0141 404 5424
South East - Janet Henney, 01293 613 795
South West - Karen Cole, 0117 923 0555
Wales – Joanne Galazka, 02920 394521
West Midlands - Maureen Scott-Douglas, 0121 553 6051
