Happy International Women’s Day!

We’re celebrating IWD by highlighting organisations that are helping build a more equal world every day.

Photo credit Alice Mollon

Happy International Women’s Day!

Today, the world is celebrating women and non-binary folk at all intersections of life. Either by attending exciting events, starting important discussions, shouting about amazing women on their newsfeeds, launching new movements, or sharing their own personal achievements.

This year’s theme is “balance for better” — a call to speed up gender balance across the world.

To celebrate, we wanted to highlight some incredible organisations in STEM and other industries run by incredible women and non-binary people who are working towards creating a more equal world.

We’ve included each organisation’s Twitter handle so you can follow them to find out more about their work and support them and theiir mission.

1. Stemettes
   They’re showing the next generation that girls do Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths too at their free, fun, food-filled experiences.
2. GirlDreamer
   GirlDreamer is an empowerment platform for millennial women of colour to do, be and achieve more. They also run Boarders without Borders, a free summer course for women of colour to learn how to longboard. Watch their film here.
3. Code First: Girls
   They’re on an important mission to increase the number of women in tech and run free coding workshops across the UK and through UK universities and paid courses for professional women.
4. Amaliah.com
   Amaliah.com is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Muslim women. Through their articles, videos, podcasts, social channels, events and a community of over 300 contributors, their work seeks to surface the many different voices and experiences within Muslim communities.
5. 1M in STEM
   They spotlight 1 million women working in STEM & business to provide visible role models for the next generation of girls.
6. Witty Careers
   They equip Black and Minority-Ethnic women in the United Kingdom with skills to build a successful career in Tech.
7. Feminism in India
   FII amplifies the voices of women and marginalized communities using tools of art, media, culture, technology and community. They have a brilliant section profiling hidden women in tech.
8. Girls Who Code
   Girls Who Code is a non-profit organisation dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology by teaching girls computer science, bravery, and sisterhood.
9. Nairobits
   NairoBits are based in Nairobi and empower youth from under-served backgrounds through training them to have technical skills.
10. Digital Mums
    Digital Mums is a social media training company specialising in getting mums job-ready so they can create flexible careers that fit around family life.
11. Girls Not Brides
    Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of 1000+ civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential.
12. This Girl Can
    This Girl Can is a nationwide campaign to get women and girls moving, regardless of shape, size and ability. You might have seen some of their adverts.
13. Rainchque
    Rainchq is smashing the gender investing gap and promoting greater financial inclusion for women through their services.
14. Women’s Engineering Society
    The Women’s Engineering Society is a charity and a professional network of women engineers. They support women in their careers and support companies with gender diversity and inclusion policies.
15. WISE
    WISE enables and energises people in business, industry and education to increase the participation, contribution and success of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

If you know of any other amazing organisations, send us a tweet or email us at hello@23codestreet.com and we’ll add them to our list.