1、艾瑪艾瑪 沃特森聯合國演講：沃特森聯合國演講：Feminism 談性別歧視談性別歧視 Feminism: men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. fighting for women rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.I started questioning gender-based as

2、sumptions a long time ago. When I was 8. I was confused being called bossy, because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents. But the boys were not. When I was 14. I started being sexualized by certain elements of media . When I was15. My girlfriends started dropping out of their

3、 sports teams. Because they didnt want to appear muscly. When I was18. My male friends were unable to express their feelings.I decided that I was a feminist.Feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists.Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?Women

4、expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, and anti-men, unattractive even.Emma Watson S OPINION I think it is right 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 involv

5、ed on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my life. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. My life is a sheer privilege My parents didnt love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didnt assume

6、I would go less far, because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences were the gender equality ambassadorsThey are the inadvertent feministsNot all women have received the same rights that I have.In 1997, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about womens rights. Sadly many o

7、f the things she wanted to change are still true today. There is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.Gender equality is your issue too Because to date, Ive seen my fathers role as a parent being valued less by society despite my needing his presence as a ch

8、ild as much as my mothers. Ive seen young man suffering from mental illness unable to ask for help for fear it would make them less of man or less of macho. In fact, in the UK suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20-49. Ive seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what cons

9、titutes male success. Men dont have the benefits of equality either.If we do nothing the reality is that if we do nothing it would 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

10、years as children. And at current rates, it wont be until 2086, before all rural African girls can have a secondary education.We are struggling for a uniting word, to step forward, to be seen and ask yourself.If we stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by who we are, we can all be freer.HEFORSHEif not now, when?if not me, who?Feminismsynonymous adj. 同義詞的; 同義的，類義的; gender.n. 性別; drop out 離開，退出; 掉出; 脫扣; 違世 aggressive 侵略的，侵犯的，攻勢的; 有進取心的，積極行動的 inadvertent 不經意的，出于無心的; 疏忽的，漫不經心的; 粗心大意 ambassador n. 大使，使節; 代表fragile .adj. 易碎的，脆的; 虛弱的; insecure .adj. 無安全的; 不