SEATTLE — Emma Watson is taking a year hiatus from acting to focus on women’s activism and promote gender equality across the globe.
Watson spoke with feminist writer Bell Hooks, author of ‘Feminism is for Everybody’ in a recent interview for Paper magazine. During the conversation she revealed she plans to spend the upcoming year focusing on her work as the U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador and her own personal development.
“I want to listen to as many different women in the world as I can, ” Watson said in the interview. “That’s something that I’ve been doing on my own, through the U.N., the HeForShe campaign and my work generally.”
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Emma Watson has been involved with women’s activism for several years. The successful actress was appointed to the U.N. Women’s advocacy position in July 2014, and has since focused her efforts on promoting the organization’s HeForShe campaign, which advocates for gender equality across the globe.
The campaign recently partnered with 10 of the world’s leading companies to release new workforce gender diversity figures in the U.N. Women’s HeForShe Parity Report. The report shows that a large gap still remains between the representation of women in the workforce and the number of women in corporate leadership positions worldwide.
Gender inequality contributes to poverty across the globe. When women have equal access to education, and are fully involved in business and economic decision making, they are a key force against poverty, according to the United Nations Development Program. Gender equality directly translates to increased prospects and improved well-being of children and reduces the poverty levels of future generations.
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“The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life, ” Watson said to U.N. Women in 2014, after being appointed as the U.N Women Goodwill Ambassador. “I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.”Edit Edit date and time
Emma Watson has had a long history of promoting women’s equality across the globe. The actress has traveled to Bangladesh and Zambia as a part of her humanitarian and women’s activism efforts. Before her time promoting gender equality with the U.N., she served as an ambassador for Camfed International, a movement that focuses on educating girls in developing and rural areas in Africa.
While Watson has been vocal about improving gender equality across the globe, the actress has also shown support for a variety of other causes. She recently voiced her support for refugees fleeing to Europe from war torn areas, posting “#refugeeswelcome” on Twitter last September.
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In 2015, Watson raised over $2, 000 for the Small Steps Project, an organization that aims to help communities living near refuse dumps, by donating high end shoes to an auction benefiting the cause. The non-profit provides emergency aid, food and shoes to protect and reduce the amount of direct contact people in these areas have with trash, a global situation that is often overlooked.
“I don’t want to preach to the choir. I want to try to talk to people who might not encounter feminism and talk to them, ” Emma Watson said to Paper, referring to her women’s activism efforts. “It’s a really interesting job, and it’s a really interesting line to tread. I want to engage in the topic with people who wouldn’t normally.”
Sources: Breitbart , HeForShe , Public Slate , Independent Journal, Paper , Small Steps Project , The Leaky Cauldron , United Nations Development Programme, U.N. Women , USA Today
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BORGEN Magazine is produced by The Borgen Project, an influential humanitarian organization working to make global poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy.On Saturday, Emma Watson gave this speech about feminism at the United Nations Headquarters, and let me tell you, she got me thinking a lot about the connection between climate change and women’s rights.
I’m not going to gush over Watson’s heartfelt delivery, or her seemingly genuine candor, or her eloquence, not to diminish any of those things. I readily admit that I initially scoffed at the idea of Watson addressing the U.N. on gender equality — was [insert name of young, pretty white actress of the moment here] busy? — but when more and more women whose opinions I respect started sharing the link to her speech, I thought, “OK, Hermione, I’ll bite.”
And then I felt like a cynical bitch (I am who I am)! Because, while she didn’t say anything truly revolutionary, I really thought she spoke compellingly about something that seems very obvious but isn’t talked about nearly as much as it should be: That it’s going to be very hard for women to attain equal political, economical, and social rights without the support of men. Watson, a new ambassador for U.N. Women, was speaking to promote the new U.N. campaign, HeforShe.
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To say that women can’t accomplish great things without men — but it’s harder to get things done if literally half the world kind of lurks around idly and fails to get actively involved in effecting change. What kinds of things have to be changed, anyway? Oh, gee, I don’t know. Giving women a voice in their healthcare decisions, ensuring that girls have equal access to education, ending wage discrimination — just for starters!
At the exact same time that Watson was addressing U.N. delegates, hundreds of thousands of people were marching literally right outside the building to bring attention to another little issue that will only affect a select few: Our old friend, climate change!
Each of the feminist causes that Watson brought up — education, reproductive health, fair wages — is very much tied to the future of the planet. When girls are educated, they can participate in policy decisions and lead scientific research — and since there’s evidence that women are more likely to take the science behind climate change seriously, we really can’t afford for that
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Control over their uteri, they can make decisions around how — and when — they contribute to population growth. And when women are paid fairly, they’re better equipped to deal with the challenges that climate change would throw them. Basically, there’s no such thing as sustainable development without equal participation of both women and men.
And yet there was absolutely no connection drawn between the march and her speech, although both were very highly publicized. That’s kind of weird! I, personally, would have loved for Watson to have brought that message to the climate march in some capacity — not that she necessarily had a lot of say in the matter.
And not to close on an entirely bummer note or anything, but how did a (very small, awful, and unrepresentative, granted) segment of the male population respond to Watson’s speech? By threatening to release nude photos of her — as punishment for demanding equality for women, I guess? I honestly can’t be bothered to explore the idiotic, inane delusions of the quasi-human cesspool that is 4chan.
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If you’re still curious (a nice way of saying confused, maybe?) about the link between women’s rights and climate change, BREATHE EASY! I’ll be exploring that relationship in posts to come.
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