Equality Between Men and Women专题:名人演讲
范文王桃花Speech by UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson at a special event for the HeForShe campaign, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 20 September, 2014
联合国妇女亲善大使艾玛?沃森在2014年9月20日纽约联合国总部为“他为她”运动举行的特别活动上的演讲
Tod ay we are launching a campaign called “HeForShe.”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(通电,刺
激)as many men and boys as possible to be advocated for gender equality. And we don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible.
今天,我们启动了一项名为“他为她”的运动。我向你伸出手,因为我需要你
的帮助。我们希望终结性别不平等——为此,我们需要所有人都参与其中。这是联合国同类运动中的第一项:我们希望努力并激励尽可能多的男人和男孩倡导性别平等。并且我们希望这不只是空谈,而是确确实实的看得见摸得着。
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.”
六个月前,我被任命为联合国妇女亲善大使。我谈论女权主义越多,我越发现,争取女性权益太容易被当作憎恨男人的同义词。如果说有一件事是我确切知道的,那就是,这样的误解必须停止。必须郑重声明,女权主义的定义是:“男性和女性应该拥有平等权利和机会的信仰。它是性别间政治、经济和社会平等的理论。”
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. When at 14 I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press. When at 15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear “muscly.” When at 18 my male friends were unable to express their feelings.
8岁时,我开始质疑基于性别的假设。我不明白,为什么我想在为家长上演的
戏剧里担任导演,就会被说成“专横”,而男孩们则不会。14岁时,我开始被媒体
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的某些元素性别化。15岁时,我的女朋友们开始退出各自的运动队,因为她们不希望显得“肌肉发达”。18岁时,我的男性朋友们不能表达他们的想法。
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. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive. Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?
我认定自己是一名女权主义者,这对我来说并不复杂。但我最近的调查发现,
女权主义已经成为一个不受欢迎的词。显然,我身处那些言辞看起来过于强烈、过于激进、孤立、反男性、不吸引人的女性行列中。为什么这个词如此令人不安?
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. No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.
我来自英国,我认为身为女性,我应该和男性同行获得一样的报酬。我认为我
应该自己为自己的身体做决定。我认为应该有女性代表我参与政治,以及我的国家的决策制定。我认为在社会上,我应该和男性获得相同的尊重。但遗憾的是,世界上没有一个国家能使所有的女性都能获得上述权利。世界上没有一个国家能说,他们已经实现了性别平等。
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 who I am today. They may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are. And we need more of those. 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
