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.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is Women's History Month and when is it observed?
Women's History Month is an annual observance held throughout March to recognize the contributions of women across history, culture, and society. It aligns with International Women's Day on March 8 and follows an annual UN Women theme, such as women educating and inspiring future generations. Workplaces use the month to run awareness, learning, and empowerment activities.
2. Why should companies celebrate Women's History Month at work?
Celebrating Women's History Month at work signals that gender equity is a strategic priority, not a marketing moment. It boosts belonging for women employees, strengthens DEI credibility with candidates and clients, and creates space for honest conversations about pay, promotion, and representation. Done well, it also feeds retention, mentorship pipelines, and supplier diversity commitments that carry through the rest of the year.
3. What are engaging Women's History Month activities for the workplace?
Engaging activities include internal storytelling sessions with women leaders, trivia nights on trailblazing women, book and film clubs, keynote panels with women executives, and matched-donation drives for nonprofits like Girls Inc., YWCA, or the Malala Fund. Volunteering with women's shelters, launching mentorship circles, and hosting supplier diversity showcases add depth beyond one-off events.
4. How can teams structure a week-by-week Women's History Month calendar?
A common structure runs four themed weeks: Awareness (podcasts, trivia, internal storytelling), Learning (keynotes, book clubs, mentorship launches), Support (matched donations, nonprofit volunteering), and Empowerment (leadership panels, hiring and promotion commitments, supplier diversity announcements). This cadence keeps momentum across March and gives every employee at least one accessible way to participate.
5. How is Women's History Month different from International Women's Day?
International Women's Day is a single date, March 8, focused on a global call to action for gender equality. Women's History Month is the broader monthlong observance across March that gives workplaces room to explore history, allyship, and structural change. Most companies anchor the biggest event on March 8 and use surrounding weeks for learning, volunteering, and leadership programming.
6. What are good virtual Women's History Month activities for remote teams?
Remote-friendly options include virtual keynotes with women leaders, online panels on intersectionality, book clubs on titles like She the People, and podcast listening groups. Virtual volunteering with women-focused nonprofits, digital trivia, and matched-donation campaigns work well across time zones. Recording sessions and sharing curated reading lists lets distributed employees join asynchronously.
7. How can companies support women beyond Women's History Month?
Sustained support means treating March as a springboard, not a finish line. Year-round commitments include pay-equity audits, transparent promotion criteria, mentorship and sponsorship circles, career development pathways, and procurement from women-owned businesses. Executive sponsors, women's ERGs, and public representation targets keep momentum visible long after the awareness campaigns close.
8. What are common mistakes companies make during Women's History Month?
Common mistakes include reducing the month to social posts, spotlighting only senior leaders while ignoring frontline experiences, and skipping intersectionality for women of color, LGBTQ+ women, and women with disabilities. Others announce events with no follow-through on hiring, pay, or promotion. The strongest programs pair visibility with measurable commitments and honest data on where the company stands.
9. Which nonprofits are meaningful partners for Women's History Month campaigns?
Strong partners include Girls Inc., YWCA, Malala Fund, Every Mother Counts, and local women's shelters or economic empowerment nonprofits. Matched giving, skills-based volunteering, and multi-year grants tend to land harder than one-time donations. Choosing partners that align with the workforce's own communities, and inviting employees to nominate them, deepens engagement and impact.
10. How can Goodera help plan Women's History Month activities?
Goodera designs turnkey Women's History Month experiences for global workforces, including virtual volunteering with women-focused nonprofits, keynote panels, storytelling sessions, and matched-giving campaigns. Programs are curated across the four-week awareness-to-empowerment arc, with impact reporting, multilingual facilitation, and accessibility built in so hybrid and distributed teams participate on equal footing.
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