Cut the performative pink parade and do the real work for all women’s rights

If we really want to push feminist policies, alleviate intersectional barriers, and achieve equity, then we’ll have to get our hands dirty, challenge power, and revolt.

Women participate in the January 2017 Ottawa Women’s March. Clara Zetkin knew feminism had to be intersectional when she wrote, 'Bourgeois feminism and the movement of proletarian women are two fundamentally different social movements,' writes Erica Ifill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

March 11, 2020

OTTAWA—International Women’s Day (IWD) is a joke in North America and deserves to be ridiculed. Last week was one that showed us that women are still at the back of the bus in a patriarchy: Elizabeth Warren, the last woman—with a realistic chance—running for president of the United States d...

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