Maya Angelou, writer
“I’m a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now.
It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.”
Malala Yousafzai, activist & 2014 Nobel Prize winner
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
Mary Beard, scholar and classicist
“You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male;
you have to change the structure”
Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette
“We have to free half of the human race, the women,
so that they can help to free the other half.”
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO
“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
The theme for International Women’s Day this year is #PressforProgress.
Chair of the London Assembly, Jennette Arnold OBE AM, will host an event to celebrate International Women’s Day, with live music and speeches from inspirational women and the Mayor of London.
Speakers include:
- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
- Dany Cotton QFSM, Commissioner, London Fire Brigade
- Amy Lamé, Night Czar, Author and Campaigner
- Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Co-Founder, Head Stemette and CEO of Stemettes
- Asha Philip, Olympic 4x100m Bronze Medallist
- Amika George, Campaigner for free menstrual products for schoolgirls
- Priscila “La Poeta”, Poet and Campaigner
- Hibo Wardere, Author and Anti-FGM Campaigner
- Hayley Mulenda, Author and Multi Award Winning International Speaker
- Siena Castellon, Inclusion Campaigner
- Sharon Ament, Director, Museum of London
The event will take place on Thursday, 8 March from 6:30pm in London’s Living Room at City Hall (The Queen’s Walk, London SE1).
Media are invited to attend by prior arrangement
The meeting can also be viewed LIVE via webcast or YouTube
Follow us @LondonAssembly and take part in the conversation using #PressforProgress
Notes to editors
- Jennette Arnold OBE AM, Chair of the London Assembly, is available for interview – see contact details below.
- As well as investigating issues that matter to Londoners, the London Assembly acts as a check and a balance on the Mayor.
For media enquiries, please contact Lisa Lam on 020 7983 4067. For out of hours media enquiries, call 020 7983 4000 and ask for the London Assembly duty press officer. Non-media enquiries should be directed to the Public Liaison Unit on 020 7983 4100.