International Women's Day 2026 #GivetoGain

Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Because it fell on a Sunday, I wasn’t online posting or scrolling. Instead, I was at home cooking a roast dinner for my family.

For me, there is nothing better than spending time with the people I love including my sister and my father, all of us sitting around the dinner table enjoying the fruits of our labour.

Not because it’s the woman’s job to cook.

But because I chose to cook.

And that, perhaps, is the real shift that has taken place over the last 115 years.

The conversation about equality often focuses on big milestones.

🚨 The right to vote,

🚨 access to education,

🚨 leadership positions,

🚨 equal pay.

These things matter deeply and represent the hard-won battles of the women who came before us.

But sometimes progress shows itself in quieter ways.

It’s in the everyday choices we get to make.

The freedom to build a career, to raise a family, to do both, or neither.

The freedom to lead a boardroom meeting on Monday and cook a Sunday roast simply because it brings us joy.

Choice is the difference.

I wonder how the small things I do today could possibly influence the women of the future? My impact may be tiny in the grand scheme of history. But perhaps legacy isn’t always about grand gestures or global movements.

Perhaps it’s about remembering.

Remembering the women who challenged expectations.

Remembering those who pushed doors open so that we didn’t have to knock quite so hard.

Remembering that the freedoms we enjoy today were once unimaginable.

If my contribution is simply acknowledging those women, appreciating the choices I have, and modelling that freedom for the next generation, then that feels like a legacy worth leaving.

Yesterday, my International Women’s Day was spent around a table, sharing food and laughter with family.

And the simple truth is: I was there by choice.

And that is something worth celebrating.

#InternationalWomensDay #GiveToGain