This International Women’s Day, meet the women who changed everything — and the authors who made sure we’d remember them.
📖 Brown. Female. Doctor. –
@kidsdoctorsarah traces her journey from Sri Lankan migrant schoolgirl to paediatrician, navigating racism, sexism and a medical culture not built for her.
📖 Fed Up –
@lucyridgewrites travels 20,000km across Australia to find women reshaping food, farming and our relationship with the land.
📖 A Matter of Taste –
@clemloz reveals the women behind the
@womensweeklymag who quietly shaped Australian food culture.
📖 Code of Silence –
@diana.thorp.author unearths the Australian women who intercepted enemy signals, kept Allied secrets and helped win WWII — then went home and told no one.
📖 Plotting the Oceans –
@sarahhamylton uncovers the trailblazing women – like Marie Tharp, who mapped the ocean floor while barred from expeditions – who changed how we see the world.
📖 Respectable Radicals – Marian Quartly & Judith Smart chronicle over a century of Australian women who politely, persistently, radically demanded equality. Now available as an Open Access title!
📖 Winning for Women – Iola Mathews OAM was in the room for the hard-won battles for parental leave, equal pay and childcare — and she wrote it all down.
Seven books. Seven stories of women who refused to accept the world as they found it. All available now #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay
