International Women’s Day is a celebration of women and their achievements. It will be held on Saturday 8 March 2025.
This year we would like to celebrate the day by acknowledging the role women play in shaping our union. We will be holding a webinar for women members to learn more about this on Thursday 6 March at 12:30pm-1:00pm on Teams.
Please register to attend HERE, and feel free to share with any other women in your workplace who may be interested in attending.
We will discuss some of the achievements that have been campaigned for by the PSA CPSU NSW Women’s Council in its 95-year history. These achievements have improved the working lives of women in the public sector, often leading the way for others.
We will also have an update from your current Women’s Council representatives on what they have been discussing at council meetings, and the battles we still have to fight to achieve gender equity in the workplace!
The annual International Women’s Day march is will be held on Saturday 8 March, starting at 1:00pm at Sydney Town Hall. There will be a contingent of PSA Women in attendance so come along and bring your friends! You can find out more about the event at their Facebook page HERE.
You can print this poster for your staff noticeboard.
The PSA CPSU NSW supports International Women’s Day. It gives us a chance to reflect on the fight for women’s rights and gender equality and the role unions have played at the forefront of this. Your union, the PSA CPSU NSW, has fought for equal pay, equal access to job opportunity, paid parental leave and job security, flexible work hours, family and community service leave, lactation breaks, and more recently 20 days’ paid domestic violence leave as well as significant improvements to paid parental leave entitlements.
International Woman’s Day also encourages us to come together and consider the battles that still need to be fought. At at 7.2 per cent, the gender pay gap in the NSW public sector is much lower than the Australian average of 21.1 per cent. However, the gender pay gap in the NSW public sector has increased over the last three years and is the highest it has been in a decade. Women still retire with far less super than men. We have workplaces that are still unsafe for many women, with high levels of exposure to sexual harassment. We need to fight to change the fact that women and children experience domestic violence at far greater levels than men, and women more often carry the burden of caring responsibilities and need job security, and better access to flexible work. We are also fighting for reproductive leave for women.
International Women’s Day is also about the celebration of women worldwide and the promotion of economic empowerment, gender equality and basic human rights.
The improvements to women’s working lives would not have been possible without women fighting for change in their workplaces. If you have an event celebrating International Women’s Day in your workplace, please tag the PSA on Facebook Instagram or send your photos to
