{"id":27006,"date":"2016-03-19T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=27006"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:46:42","slug":"canadian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/canadian-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister: \u201cWhy is it that every time I say I\u2019m a feminist, Twitter explodes and news media\u2019s feeds pick up?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"During a public conversation at UN Headquarters today, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka called on global leaders to do more to ensure gender equality and promote women\u2019s empowerment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cFor me, it\u2019s just really obvious. We should be standing up for women\u2019s rights and trying to create more equal societies\u2014duh!… I take the positive attention that we\u2019re getting right now as an encouragement to be making sure that we are doing even more and indeed participating in a global movement to address this in every country around the world at the same time,\u201d said Prime Minister Trudeau. \u201cThis needs to be seen not as a women\u2019s movement but as a global movement\u2026 We need to challenge folks to step up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A self-proclaimed feminist, he gained global acclaim for his matter-of-fact response to a question about why he appointed a gender-equal Cabinet last year: \u201cBecause it\u2019s 2015.\u201d At the high-level event today, Prime Minister Trudeau explained that in order to be able to appoint such a cabinet, his team deliberately sought out women to come forward as candidates. He also stressed continued efforts to retain women in leadership and foster better work-life balance in the workplace.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo any world leader that tells me: \u2018I\u2019d love to, I just can\u2019t do that with the current configuration\u2019\u2026 I say \u2018Well, what are you doing to change that configuration and draw out those extraordinary women who can\u2019t be the leaders we need them to be\u2019?\u201d said Prime Minister Trudeau. \u201cThis is the way the world needs to go and this is the way we\u2019re going make it go\u2014together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During the intimate and candid conversation, he said Canada still needs to do more to reduce wage inequality and confront violence against women, particularly against indigenous women. UN Women\u2019s Executive Director stressed the importance of national legislation to end discrimination, achieving the new Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, and strong leadership \u201cto dramatically change the landscape\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe insist in UN Women that the struggle for gender equality is not just for women\u2014it is for everybody, and those with authority and power, especially; they must lead from the front,\u201d said Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka. \u201cThe Prime Minister had the authority to appoint a 50-50 cabinet. Leaders must use the authority that they have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stressing the importance of engaging more men on gender equality, Prime Minister Trudeau said:\u00a0\u201cWhy is it that every time I say I\u2019m a feminist, Twitter explodes and news media\u2019s feeds pick up? It shouldn\u2019t be something that creates a reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka thanked the Canadian Prime Minister for his feminist leadership and ceremoniously pinned him as the newest champion of UN Women\u2019s signature\u00a0HeForShe campaign<\/a>, which seeks to engage more men for gender equality. \u201cThis fight is big; it needs to be diversified; and mobilizing and working with men and boys has been a critical strategy for UN Women,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Moderated by Sade Baderinwa, Emmy Award-winning journalist of WABC Channel 7, the discussion was the first segment of a two-part high-level event on Gender Equality and Global Call to Action on Equal Pay organized by UN Women during the 60th\u00a0session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The second part featured video messages from Sigmundur Dav\u00ed\u00f0 Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland, and Stefan L\u00f6fven, Prime Minister of Sweden, and a lively discussion among panelists Renana Jhabvala, Self-Employed Women\u2019s Association (SEWA), Jill Shenker, International Organizing Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Abby Wambach, Olympic gold medalist, Women\u2019s World Cup winner and U.S. football icon.<\/p>\n

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Echoing Prime Minister Trudeau and Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka on the need for joint efforts, Ms. Wambach said: \u201cWe all just have to come together to fight this battle, to have one giant voice, and we can actually make more policy to make sure that none of these injustices continue to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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