Home featured Ally Watson, CEO and Founder of Code Like a Girl and Lenovo Ambassador (left) and Susan Wheeldon, Country Manager, Airbnb Australia and New Zealand (right). Featured Workplace Featured What the big businesses are doing for International Women’s Day Loren Webb March 6, 2020 International Women’s Day is held annually on the 8th of March, as a celebration of women’s achievements. It is a chance for businesses, big and small, to show their customers and community that they support gender equality. Many big brands are involved in a marketing front, and/or they’re involved behind-the-scenes with some initiatives that showcase the achievements of the women in their business. We hear from some of the well-known businesses in Australia, such as AirBnb and Facebook, as well as others, on what they’ll be doing this International Women’s Day. We hope this will provide insights into how all businesses can get involved and support gender equality – which is still struggling in Australia today. In no particular order we look at how businesses are marking IWD, in their own words. Avanade Australia Debra Underwood, Marketing Director and Inclusion and Diversity Chair of Avanade Australia shares what their widely-spread team will be doing and what IWD means for them. At Avanade, our International Women’s Day celebration each year is centred around a theme that underpins the breadth of employee engagement programs we run in every country we operate in and our thought leadership initiatives to influence the communities we live in. In 2018 and