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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a United Nations conference that he looks forward to someday being able to call himself a feminist without having it wind up in news headlines.
“For my generation and younger, it’s all sort of a ‘duh,'” he said. “The fact that it gets such a reaction from the powers and the authority structure that surrounds us really shows how much work we still have to do.” The Liberal leader said that every time he talks about being a feminist, he’s asked about it by the media, and the reaction online is over the top. “I am going to keep saying loud and clear that I am a feminist until it is met with a shrug,” he said. “Why, every time I say I’m a feminist, does the Twitterverse explode?”
Gender equality should be a mainstream political position, the prime minister said, and he encouraged other countries to model their cabinets after Canada’s, with an equal number of men and women. “Any world leaders who tell me, ‘I’d love to, I just can’t do that with the current configuration of our parliament or of my party,’ I say: ‘Well, what are you doing to change that configuration and draw out those extraordinary women who can be leaders that we need?'” Trudeau said.
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