The theme for this year’s International Women's Day is inspire inclusion. There shouldn’t be just one day a year to shine a spotlight on the power of inclusion in driving positive change for women everywhere, but International Women's Day serves as a really important moment to reflect, educate and learn about the ongoing journey towards gender equality and inclusivity. Because unfortunately, we really still aren’t there yet.

At Haymarket, we have just celebrated the one year anniversary of our revamped global sustainability agenda - Impact, which is centred closely around the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

In just a year we’ve managed to achieve some pretty big milestones, including a global content audit of our 70+ brands, to measure how our external voice is aligned with our Impact agenda.

One of the SDGs Impact aligns closely with is Gender Equality - and our content audit has captured various pieces of work relating to this.

Whether it’s written articles, campaigns, events, awards or educational resources, they cover everything from celebrating women, recognising female talent, breaking down stereotypes, calling out inequalities and much more.

So we thought, why not dive into some of the stories behind the headlines?

In episode two, we’ve gone a bit car mad, and you'll be hearing from our automotive teams in the UK and India.

I don’t think many people would contest the claim that there’s still work to be done with achieving gender parity in the automotive industry. But that makes it all the more important to celebrate and raise awareness of the progress that has been made.

We hear from Mark Tisshaw, Editor of Autocar, Ayisha Gharu, Social Media Manager for What Car?, Georgia Patmore, Social Media Executive for Autocar and Renuka Kirpalani, Host and Editor of the Autocar Show in India.

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