Celebrated annually on 8 March is International Women's Day, an opportunity to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

In recognition of this day and this year's theme Choose To Challenge, our librarians have put together their favourite stories about women who chose to challenge in order to make change. 

DVDs:

• The Crown
• The handmaid's tale
• Jessica Jones
• He named me Malala
• Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin
• Lady Bird
• Hidden Figures

Audiobooks:

• It’s up to the women, Eleanor Roosevelt
• The book of gutsy women: favourite stories of courage and resilience, Hillary Rodham Clinton 
• Fighting for space: two pilots and their historic battle for female space flight, Amy Shira Teitel

Non-fiction:

• Women and leadership: real lives, real lessons, Julia Gillard 
• Ten women who changed science and the world, Catherine Whitlock
• Breaking ground: architecture by women, Jane Hall
• Great women artists, multiple authors 
• She can really lay it down: 50 rebels, rockers & musical revolutionaries (who happen to be women), Rachel Frankel 
• Unretouched women, Clare Bouveresse
• Independent female filmmakers: a chronicle through interviews, profiles and manifestos, multiple authors