Last year we featured 18 women business owners from Linlithgow to celebrate International Women’s Day. Since then, several new businesses and organisations have sprung up and we’d like to celebrate these entrepreneurial people.
Officially adopted by the United Nations in 1975, the story of International Women’s Day goes back further in history. In fact, Women’s Day has been observed since the early 1900s – a time when women were starting to campaign for equal rights.
IWD 2025 campaign theme is ‘Accelerate Action’, a worldwide call to acknowledge strategies, resources, and activity that positively impact women’s advancement, and to support and elevate their implementation.
From the IWD website
Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. That’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge gender equality. Collectively for #IWD2025 we can all #AccelerateAction.
International Women’s Day (IWD) has been around for over a hundred years, as have many of the issues still impacting women’s advancement. Since 1911, IWD belongs to all who care about women’s equality. Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness about discrimination. Take action to forge gender parity. All IWD activity is valid, that’s what makes IWD so inclusive.
Below are the women who opened their businesses in Linlithgow since the 2024 International Women’s Day.
For more information, see Internationalwomensday.com
The article published in March 2024, Edition 104 for International Women’s Day can be found in the One Linlithgow feature article of the Community Magazine
This Article was published in the Linlithgow Black Bitch Community Magazine, Edition 112, March 2025.
Content provided by One Linlithgow Ltd.
