Gender inequality hurts us individually and it is a blight on our society. It is holding the 21st century back from development, peace and sustainability. There is a pandemic of violence directed against women. Girls are still less likely to finish school — or even go to secondary school — than boys in developing countries. Women make up some 40 per cent of the world’s work force, but they are yet to receive equal pay for equal work. Women are still chronically underrepresented in leadership positions in business and in government.
Last weekend at the United Nations, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson launched a powerful call for action. She asked men and boys everywhere to join UN Women’s HeforShe campaign, because gender equality is also a men’s issue.
HeForShe is a solidarity movement for men and boys to become advocates for gender equality. HeForShe is about freedom, as Emma said. It is about being free to make decisions and access education, justice, health and resources equally. HeForShe is about freedom from violence and discrimination based on gender. HeForShe is a movement for every man, everywhere. It comes at a time where inaction is simply not an option.
Emma Watson Delivers Game Changing Speech On Feminism For The U.n.
Soon after Emma spoke out for gender equality, countless voices were raised all over the globe, expressing their support and flooding the Internet. In parallel, we have seen an outpouring of outright hostile and sexist comments. A young woman stands up for freedom and for equality between men and women, and she is attacked. The debate this response has sparked online and in the news media has reinforced just how necessary it is to have a global, public dialogue on gender equality.
Threats like this do not impact celebrities alone. Thousands of women and girls suffer abuse and humiliation every day on the Internet and in the media. Sexism online and offline is also reinforced by stereotypes presented through TV and film.
This week, the first-ever global study on gender representation in films was launched by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, UN Women, The Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Southern California. Its findings include that women are highly sexualized in films and twice as likely as men to be shown in sexually revealing clothes or nude. Media is a powerful player in our lives. The persistence of inequality in films and media has a real impact on the minds and hearts of real people.
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Emma’s voice, along with those of the millions of women and men who have chimed in to speak out for women’s empowerment, cannot be silenced. Gender equality and non-discrimination are the underpinnings of human rights. We are proud to work with Emma as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador. Together, we stand with Emma for gender equality.Speech by UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson at a special event for the HeForShe campaign, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 20 September 2014
I am reaching out to you because I need your help.We want to end gender inequality—and to do that we need everyone to be involved.
This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.
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I was appointed six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.
For the record, feminism by definition is: “The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.”
I started questioning gender-based assumptions when at eight I was confused at being called “bossy, ” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents—but the boys were not.
Emma Watson Un Speech Transcript
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word.
I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.
These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer privilege because my parents didn’t love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didn’t assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today. And we need more of those.
Emma Watson's Powerful Quotes About Feminism
And if you still hate the word—it is not the word that is important but the idea and the ambition behind it. Because not all women have been afforded the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
In 1995, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly many of the things she wanted to change are still a reality today.
But what stood out for me the most was that only 30 per cent of her audience were male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
Emma Watson Was Terrified Before Her Game Changing U.n. Speech On Feminism
Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society despite my needing his presence as a child as much as my mother’s.
I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness unable to ask for help for fear it would make them look less “macho”—in fact in the UK suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20-49 years of age; eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality either.
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
Hear Emma Watson's Speech On Feminism
If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.
Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.
If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are—we can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom.
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I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too—reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.
You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It’s a good question and trust me, I have been asking myself the same thing. I don’t know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen—and given the chance—I feel it is my duty to say something. English Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men and women to do nothing.”
Emma Watson's Feminism Speech At The Un Full Script (readable)
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself firmly—if not me, who, if not now, when. If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope those words might be helpful.
Because the reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children. And at current rates it won’t be until 2086 before all rural African girls will be able to receive a secondary education.
We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is we have a uniting movement. It is
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