![Action Daycare and other childcare activists join the 1983 International Women's Day March in Toronto. Signs call for universal quality daycare and paid maternity leave.](https://riseuparchive.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/IWD-demo-1983_83031.jpg)
Feminists have been fighting for 50 years for the creation of a national universal child care program. Some version of a national program has been proposed by different federal governments over the years, but these proposals have never been realized.