The printing industry is more connected than it looks from the inside. The paper in your press may have been milled in Canada. The equipment on your floor engineered in Germany. The client on your next call calling from Latin America. Print has always been a global business — and the women working within it are, too.

Yet professional generosity has a tendency to stop at the borders we know best. We mentor people in our building. We advocate for colleagues in our region. We share opportunities within the networks we see regularly.

International Women’s Day (celebrated annually on March 8) asks us to think bigger and broader. For instance, what happens when women in print invest in networking relationships with one another across markets, cultures, and time zones?

When a business owner in Chicago advocates for a peer in Mexico?

When a plant manager in the UK shares process knowledge with a counterpart in South Africa?

When a global sales director in Tokyo reaches out to a colleague in Dubai – not to talk business, but to ask how she’s holding up?

Women in Print Alliance is an organization built on the premise that a stronger, more connected global community makes the entire industry more resilient.

The official theme of International Day of the Woman 2026 is “Give to Gain.”

So, this month, we invite you to ask yourself not just what you can do locally, but how far your generosity can actually reach? What – and where – will you give to gain?