We are thrilled to join the global community in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8th. This year’s theme, “Accelerate Action”, highlights the urgency of driving meaningful change toward gender equality. It calls for swift, decisive efforts to break down systemic barriers and biases that women face in both their personal and professional lives. 

“Accelerate Action” is a worldwide call to acknowledge strategies, resources, and activities that positively impact women's advancement and support their implementation. 

As part of MDPI’s answer to this call, we spotlight the various ways in which the open access publishing model can help to empower the female voice. Throughout the week we will be publishing three original blogs from MDPI female authors highlighting the successes of our journals, our employees, and the work that we have carried out to disseminate information around various pressing topics such as women’s health. 

We have also curated a list of pertinent journals, articles and Special Issues on topics related to gender equity, women in the workplace and women’s health. 

We invite you to join us in this celebration. 

From all of us at MDPI—happy International Women’s Day!  

Mathematics Women Mathematician Award Nomination deadline: 31 May 2025 Eligibility and requirements: Must be women; Must have received their Ph.D.; Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of the field of mathematics; Must be nominated by senior scientists; Cannot be nominated for the Young Investigator Award in the same year. The prize: CHF 2000; An APC fee waiver to publish a peer-reviewed paper in 2025 in the journal Mathematics; A certificate.

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“How Gender Influences the Motivation and Action Towards Climate Change: A Qualitative Study of Participants from a UK Construction Company”
by Fenella Ross, Campbell Middleton and Olivia Remes
Challenges 2025, 16(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/challe16010003 

“A Pilot Study on the Fecal Microbiota in Mexican Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Their Newborns”
by Dennise Lizárraga, Alejandra García-Gasca, Teresa García-Gasca, Gertrud Lund, Abraham Guerrero, Efrén Peraza-Manjarrez and Bruno Gómez-Gil
Diabetology 2024, 5(5), 464-475; https://doi.org/10.3390/diabetology5050034 

“Application of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Female Infertility Treatment: Protocols and Preliminary Results”
by Sofia Chatzianagnosti, Iasonas Dermitzakis, Paschalis Theotokis, Eleni Kousta, George Mastorakos and Maria Eleni Manthou
Life 2024, 14(9), 1161; https://doi.org/10.3390/life14091161 

“Returning to Work after Breast Cancer: A One-Year Mixed-Methods Study”
by Nicola Magnavita, Igor Meraglia and Daniela Andreina Terribile
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(8), 1057; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21081057 

“Approach and Management of Pregnancies with Risk Identified by Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing”
by Miruna Gug, Adrian Rațiu, Nicoleta Andreescu, Simona Farcaș, Sorina Laitin and Cristina Gug
J. Pers. Med. 2024, 14(4), 366; https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm14040366 

“Update on Sentinel Lymph Node Methods and Pathology in Breast Cancer”
by Jules Zhang-Yin, Etienne Mauel and Stéphanie Talpe
Diagnostics 2024, 14(3), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14030252 

“‘We Got Lucky with the Judge’: Access to Justice for Disabled Women in Iceland”
by Eliona Gjecaj, Anna Lawson, Rannveig Traustadóttir and James Gordon Rice
Laws 2023, 12(2), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/laws12020021