What does it mean to be a feminist mother?

This International Women’s Day, Lauren Taylor talks to Mother Power author Poppy O’Neill about inequalities in parenthood – and how to fight back.

How to be a more feminist mother (Alamy/PA)

Sexism affects women in different ways at different stages of life – and one point where the gap between cis men and women can really feel like a gulf, is when there’s a baby in the picture.

Poppy O’Neill, author of Mother Power: A Feminist’s Guide To Motherhood, says we’ve “come so far” that sometimes, women can now get through their teens and 20s without “sexism being so obvious that it’s hard to ignore” (although that isn’t the case for everyone, of course, and many young women’s lives are sill heavily impacted).

“When you become a mother,” O’Neill adds. “It does kind of hit you in the chops.”