Women’s History Month event ideas and week-wise activity calendar

Women’s History Month is an opportunity for organizations to honor the achievements of trailblazing women while inspiring future generations. To align with this year’s theme, ‘Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations,’ we’ve created a comprehensive activity calendar featuring week-by-week ideas to engage teams and drive meaningful social impact.

Our activity calendar focuses on fostering gender sensitivity, empowering women in the workplace, and supporting campaign themes like digital literacy and career readiness. These Women’s History Month ideas are designed to create a lasting impact and ensure active participation throughout the month-long celebrations.

If you are organizing Women’s History Month events for the first time, check out our detailed guide on How to Celebrate Women's History Month at Work.

Week-wise activity calendar for Women’s History Month

Week 1: Activities to spark awareness 

Organizations can use this week to share important information about women and their historic accomplishments. Here are some fun and engaging Women’s History Month activities to spark workplace awareness.

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• Trivia Nights: Trivia nights are a great way to encourage team bonding through inspiring stories of trailblazing women. Based on the organizational structure, teams can nominate a volunteer or collaborate with ERGs to organize trivia nights by inviting participants across the organization.

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• Women’s History Month-themed employee engagement activities: CSR teams and ERGs can leverage org-wide events like town halls, conferences, and summits to raise awareness and drive action around women’s issues through purposeful employee engagement activities. Explore 50+ Women’s History Month activity ideas for workplace celebrations.

• Lunch and learns, coffee talks, and breakout sessions: Organizations can use surveys and polls to understand top-of-the-mind issues for women and structure Women’s History Month activities into panel discussions, informal chats, or virtual breakout rooms.

‍Women's ERGs in the organization can share helpful resources such as blogs, articles, and videos to equip participants with relevant knowledge. Actionable insights from these discussions can become the basis for more inclusive workplace policies.

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‍Avoid scheduling employee activities and events on Mondays and Fridays, as most employees are preoccupied with tasks and generally unavailable. It’s also best to ensure no conflicts with global/org-wide meetings, as this impacts employee participation.

• Learning & development opportunities: You can organize learning-based activities outside the workplace to explore related topics like gender equality, male allyship, and gender pay gap.

Week 2 & 3: Activities that drive social impact

This is the time to turn employee interest into action and drive impact around organizational giving goals such as women in STEM, diversity and inclusion, and gender equity. Here are some genuinely impactful Women’s History Month event ideas to engage your teams:

•  Women’s History Month volunteering and outreach activities: Organizations can engage employees through virtual, in-person, or hybrid activities in areas such as digital and financial literacy, STEM, rural women's health and well-being, and career readiness among underserved women.

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‍By aligning volunteering activities to the organization’s impact areas and planning ahead for remote and global team participation, organizations can boost their CSR impact and purposefully engage employees during their Women’s History Month celebrations.

• Leadership and networking events to support women employees: Organizations can conduct and sponsor employee participation in leadership and networking summits to support their professional and personal development. Sponsoring these events can help employees feel empowered and supported and contribute to equitable workplaces.‍

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‍Improve employee participation in campaign events through fun and engaging marketing strategies like Women’s History Month-themed zoom backgrounds, badges for participation, and photo booths.

Week 4 & 5: Org-wide celebratory events for Women’s History Month

Round up the celebrations with org-wide events that reward and recognize the contributions of women employees.

• Awards and recognition: Workplaces can spotlight the achievements of women employees across teams and functions. These initiatives often empower employees to break gender biases and empower employees to become role models for the org. 

• Org-wide engagement activities: Organizations can work with engagement and impact partners to conduct global engagement activities that build an organizational culture around gender sensitivity and create a positive societal impact around issues affecting women.

• Host sessions with expert speakers: Organizations can use this opportunity to build understanding for their workforce around contemporary topics such as intersectionality, imposter syndrome, and women's leadership by hosting expert panels and talks.

While Women’s History Month celebrations occur once a year, they offer organizations an opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to important causes like advancing gender equity, women empowerment, and supporting the career development of women in workplaces.

Attention Women's ERG members!

‍Looking for ways to empower your Women's Employee Resource Group? Our dedicated page offers a year-round activity plan featuring engaging and empowering activities for women ERG members. Plus, check out our comprehensive Guide to Women's ERGs for tips on how to enhance or establish your own Women's ERG in the workplace, our Women's ERG toolkit to enable ERG leaders to build and scale Women's ERGs.