{"id":81027,"date":"2022-03-02T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?page_id=81027"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:56:41","slug":"international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/2026\/02\/P_CarletonPhotography_ID_250523-138-1024x683.jpg); background-position: 47% 53%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        International Women&#8217;s Day\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"#events\">Events <\/a>| <a href=\"#stories\">Stories<\/a> | <a href=\"#resources\">Resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On International Women\u2019s Day, marked annually on March 8, Carleton is celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women&nbsp;across the university. Women continue to experience discrimination based on their gender and intersecting identities, which is exacerbated for racialized women, Indigenous women, women with disabilities, trans women and those with marginalized gender identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    \n\n\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            \n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white cu-section--cards ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\" 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    Journalism Alum Returns to Carleton as CKCU\u2019s New Station Director\n                <\/h2>\n            <\/header>\n                            <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6 text-left\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    On a quiet stretch of hallway on the fifth floor of Carleton University\u2019s Nideyin\u00e0n building, formerly known as the University Centre, not much has changed since Lia Kiessling (BJ\/01) was a student here. \n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n                    <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto md:pt-5\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.carleton.ca\/story\/back-on-air-journalism-alum-returns-as-ckcu-station-director\/\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n                    More info\n                <\/a>\n            <\/footer>\n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 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Entrepreneurial Carleton Grad Charts Her Own Course\n                <\/h2>\n            <\/header>\n                            <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6 text-left\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Five years ago, Avery Sheppard\u2019s life changed dramatically during a dinner table conversation at home in the town of Mindemoya on Northern Ontario\u2019s Manitoulin Island.\n\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n                    <footer class=\"px-6 pt-3 mt-auto md:pt-5\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/purvis-fish-chips-grad-avery-sheppard\/\" class=\"cu-button cu-button--red cu-button--small\">\n                    More info\n                <\/a>\n            <\/footer>\n        \n    <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100 group duration-300 ease-in hover:scale-[1.02] 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