Canadian women should mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday by celebrating the men in their lives, says Sophie Gregoire Trudeau. Do we really need to make International WOMEN’S Day about the men in our lives?” Kristina Kurth Benoit commented on Gregoire Trudeau’s photo. Gregoire Trudeau serves as an ambassador for Plan Canada’s Because I Am a Girl, a campaign aimed at empowering youth to stand up for girls’ rights and gender equality. Why am I suffering from this?’ The stigma is less and less, because we talk about it more,” says Gregoire Trudeau. The Liberal party — with a prime minister who has oft-described himself as a feminist, and whose cabinet is 50 per cent female — used International Women’s Day for its own ends.

Source: National Post March 08, 2017 01:08 UTC