--- title: Justin Trudeau: UN Speech on Feminism description: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an impassioned call for men to join the fight for gender equality at the United Nations. canonical: https://time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-23T16:07:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:26.610Z og:title: Justin Trudeau Perfectly Explains Why Men Should Fight for Gender Equality og:description: The Canadian prime minister and proud feminist made an impassioned speech og:url: https://time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02a346b3a98c4e31/6988a75bfb4eacc52c88f3bb/justin-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Justin Trudeau Holds A Press Conference At The UN - NYC og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Justin Trudeau Perfectly Explains Why Men Should Fight for Gender Equality twitter:description: The Canadian prime minister and proud feminist made an impassioned speech twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02a346b3a98c4e31/6988a75bfb4eacc52c88f3bb/justin-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Justin Trudeau Perfectly Explains Why Men Should Fight for Gender Equality > Sponsored content. 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Van Tine Dennis—Sipa USA/AP  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Sep 23, 2016 4:07 PM UTC Canadian Prime Minister and [proud feminist](http://fusion.net/story/340769/justin-trudeau-feminist-quotes/) [Justin Trudeau](http://motto.time.com/4347449/justin-trudeau-day-off/?iid=sr-link1) made an impassioned call for men to join the fight for gender equality at the United Nations this week. “I think that everybody should be in the business of improving opportunities for women and girls,” Trudeau said at the UN Women’s movement [HeForShe](http://motto.time.com/4500005/emma-watson-heforshe-university-gender-equality/?iid=sr-link1)‘s second anniversary event on Tuesday night. “We need women and girls to succeed because that’s how we build stronger, more resilient communities. It’s how we grow a stronger economy. Encouraging the full participation of women and girls in public life and in the business world leads to better decision making all around.” [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ Trudeau, who made [waves for appointing a cabinet with an equal number of men and women](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-04/feminist-trudeau-to-name-women-to-half-the-posts-in-new-cabinet), added that he wants his seven-year-old daughter, Ella-Grace, to grow up with as much opportunity as her two brothers, Xavier and Hadrien. “But I also want my sons, Xavier and Hadrien, to be active and engaged in understanding that they have to work and fight so that their sister, Ella-Grace, has the opportunities as well. It’s not just about women’s issues, it’s about everyone’s issues,” he said. “We know that if kids grow up in an equal world, it is a better world — more open, more prosperous, and more peaceful.” The prime minister also asked that people hold him and other politicians accountable for how they addressed the issue. Trudeau has fielded some criticism from feminists in the past, notably [for a budget that some said didn’t go far enough in addressing gender disparities](http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/sarahbee/2016/03/feminist-justin-trudeau-delivers-deeply-unfeminist-first-budget) in March and [for visiting a gender-segregated mosque earlier this month](http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/feminist-pm-defends-attendance-at-gender-segregated-event). “We need you to continue challenging your friends, your neighbors, your political leaders every day to do better,” he said. “Because we can and because we must.” Watch Trudeau’s full speech below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/"},"headline":"Justin Trudeau Perfectly Explains Why Men Should Fight for Gender Equality","datePublished":"2016-09-23T16:07:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:26.610Z","description":"'I think that everybody should be in the business of improving opportunities for women and girls'","url":"https://time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02a346b3a98c4e31/6988a75bfb4eacc52c88f3bb/justin-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02a346b3a98c4e31/6988a75bfb4eacc52c88f3bb/justin-trudeau.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Justin Trudeau Holds A Press Conference At The UN - NYC","caption":"Justin Trudeau Holds A Press Conference At The UN - NYC","creditText":"Van Tine Dennis—Sipa USA/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4505692/justin-trudeau-un-speech-feminism/","name":"Justin Trudeau Perfectly Explains Why Men Should Fight for Gender Equality"}}]}] ```