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To kick the celebrations off this month we wanted to share the link for the International Women’s Day (IWD) website.This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge and centers around challenging gender bias and inequality. The site is full of resources and events, both in person and virtually, and you can search by country and city to find ways to mark the occasion near you. To get a little background on the day, which women all over the world will celebrate for the 110th time this year, this piece from the BBCis instructive.

Obviously it’s no coincidence that IWD falls during March, since it’s the month we spend celebrating women and their contributions to society here and abroad. But did you know that each year, the President of the United States issues a proclamation honoring and commemorating the achievements of women? Yeah, neither did we! But here it is. It’s actually a lovely read. Then you can go to Entertainment Weekly (we know, we were surprised too!) for a primer on the history of the month-long observance.This is a quick, useful, hit.

We’ve also lined up a few more interesting, female-focused, reads featuring women for you to dig into.

-You can start with this piece about a young woman in India who realized that the country had no lifestyle magazines in Braille.Sure, there were textbooks and newspapers and books, but nothing that was “simply fun and interesting.” So she started one, White Print, which launched in 2013.

-Next have a look at this story featuring the author of a new book about female con artists explaining to readers the different kinds of cons women have pulled off through the ages. In the article, the author, Tori Telfer, describes five quintessential personas women con artists often take on. As the piece says, “consider yourself warned.” And for more on one woman who so expertly conned people for years, here’s a fascinating, and creepy, deep dive from The Cut about a woman who called herself Anna Delvey…

-Finally, you might read this story in Vogueabout a Canadian journalist with a new eight-episode podcast that chronicles the case of one young Native American woman who went missing from Missoula, Montana, three years ago. Sadly, she is one of thousands who go missing every year in what many activists say is a crisis. Here’s the link to the podcast as well as another one to a New York Times story on the broader problemnot only of missing Native American women and girls, but the violence they encounter so frequently, too.