Academics, staff and students will celebrate the 2010 International Women’s Day (IWD) at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst with a range of activities on the library lawn starting at 12.30pm on Monday 8 March. Two of the spokespeople for the women involved in this event, Professor Jo-Anne Reid, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Education, and  Associate Professor Jane Mills from the School of Communication and Creative Industries, said, “Our theme  is Equal rights, equal opportunity: Progress for all. The event provides an opportunity to focus on the relevance of IWD to issues of student life and culture, and foreground the intellectual and political life of our campus in a way that is both welcoming and inclusive of all students and staff”. The event has support from the Head of Campus, Mr Col Sharp, the National Tertiary Education Union, and the student association, who are all keen to advance the recognition of women in all roles in the university community, as well as in the community broadly.