There may be a royal feminist on the horizon — boy or girl. That's according to Meghan Markle, who spoke candidly about women’s challenges — and her own hopes for her baby.
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00:00You can be feminine and a feminist.
00:02You can be masculine, and I think in terms of masculinity,
00:06you understand that your strength
00:08includes knowing your vulnerabilities.
00:10And your sense of self and security, your confidence,
00:21comes in knowing that a woman by your side, not behind you,
00:25is actually something that you shouldn't be threatened about
00:27but as opposed to that, you should feel really empowered
00:29in having that additional support,
00:31that this is really about us working together.
00:33That's what gender equality means for me,
00:35and having men part of that conversation to say,
00:38there's nothing threatening about a woman
00:39coming up to the same level.
00:41It's our safety in numbers.
00:43This is our power and our strength as a team.
00:45So, and that's gender neutral, if you really think about it.
00:49And I said, wait a minute, how could somebody say that?
01:05Truth be told, at 11, I don't even think
01:07I really knew what sexism meant.
01:08I just knew that something struck me internally.
01:12No one was telling me that it was wrong,
01:13but I knew that it was wrong.
01:15And I think sort of using that as my moral compass
01:19and moving through from the age of 11,
01:21being able to see that at that age,
01:24I was able to actually change this commercial
01:26before social media, before being able to,
01:28you know, have a larger reach, just putting pen to paper.
01:31It really set up the trajectory for me to say,
01:35if things are wrong, and there is a lack of justice,
01:38and there's an inequality,
01:39then someone needs to say something.
01:41And why not me?
01:46I've actually been joking in the past few weeks.
01:53I'd seen this documentary on Netflix about feminism,
01:56and one of the things they said during pregnancy was,
01:58I feel the embryonic kicking of feminism.
02:01I love that. So, boy or girl, whatever it is,
02:03we hope that that's the case with our little boy.