Did you know that 2025 is the 50th anniversary of International Women’s Year (IWY)? In 1975, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed it would celebrate women, setting in train events that would globally shift the way women were included, and perceived.
While some of the battles are still on the table 50 years later, to be inclusive in all aspects of life – economically, socially and politically – is key to the tenets of contemporary society. In Australia, Elizabeth Reid was part of the Australian delegation to the UN’s first World Conference on Women, which took place in Mexico City in June 1975. She was also Women’s Adviser to the newly elected Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
