Because it’s 2019, let’s stop using feminism as a not-truly-equal cabinet crutch

Feminists are basically ‘OK, Boomer’-ing the Liberals when they say they’re being feminists, because they don’t really have any idea of what it means to be a feminist in 2019.

In 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained his gender-balanced cabinet with the viral line ‘Because it’s 2015.’ In 2019, discussion about women leadership in cabinet is scarce, writes Erica Ifill. Screenshot courtesy of CBC News

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

November 20, 2019

OTTAWA—Gender parity, once on-trend in 2015, is now merely a passing thought just four years later. Cabinet announcements will be made today and not since in the days immediately following the election in October has gender parity in cabinet been discussed. What’s that we hear? Oh, crickets. I...

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