International Themes 2017-2020:
“Empowering Women to Realize the Sustainable Development Goals”
Past Themes:
- 2014-2017 “Making a Difference through Leadership and Action”
- 2011-2014 “Empower Women Leading Business”
- 2008-2011 “Power to Make a Difference”
- 2005-2008 “New Dimensions of Leadership”
- 2002-2005 "A World of Peace"
- 1999-2002 "Empowering Women for the 21st Century"
- 1996-1999 "Partnerships for the Future"
- 1993-1996 "Taking IFBPW Forward"
- 1991-1993 "Women - Environment and Development"
- 1989-1991 "Women - the Spirit of Enterprise"
- 1987-1989 "Women - The Vital Force"
- 1985-1987 "Youth Today Leaders Tomorrow"
- 1983-1985 "Women in Transition - Strategies for Success: Preparation and Progress"
- 1980-1983 "A Golden Opportunity: Golden Jubilee"
- 1977-1980 "The Challenges to the New Women"
- 1974-1977 "Looking Towards the 21st Century Women…Their Full Potential"
- 1971-1974 "The Significant Seventies"
- 1968-1971 "Human Value in Today's World"
- 1965-1968 "Developing Channels for Cooperation"
- 1962-1965 "Road to World-Wide Understanding"
- 1959-1962 "Building Bridges between People"
- 1950-1959 "The Trained Women - Her contribution to World Affairs"
- 1947-1950 "The Art of Living Together"
- 1938-1946 "Business and Professional Women and the New Social Order"
- 1936-1938 "The Work of Women in the Modern World in Different Spheres of Business, Science, Art and the Professions”