Emma Watson‘s Moving HeForShe Speech!!!
The former Harry Potter saga star and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson’s Moving HeForShe Speech was encouraging world and corporate leaders.
On Friday (January 23rd, 2015) Watson wanted to enlighten world and corporate leaders to take action for gender equality during the kickoff of a HeForShe program launch at the World Economic Forum at Davos.
The UN describes it as a pilot initiative “to galvanise momentum in advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment”.
While Emma Watson explained:
“There is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.”
Listen to Emma Watson’s Moving HeForShe Speech:
Watson also said:
I spoke about some of my story in September – what are your stories?
Girls: Who have been your mentors, parents, did you make sure you treated your children equally? If so, how have you done it? Husbands: Have you been suppporting your female partner privately so that she can fulfil her dreams too? Young men: Have you spoke up in a conversation when a woman was casually degraded or dismissed?
Businessmen: Have you mentored, supported or engaged women in leadership positions? Writers: Have you challenged the language and imagery used to portray women in the media? CEOs: Have you implemented the women’s empowerment principles in your own company?
She even remembered to mention this letter from a 15-year-old boy:
A magnificent letter in the Telegraph from 15-year-old @EdHoltom. pic.twitter.com/68Bzkq0GhB
— Nicholas Pegg (@NicholasPegg) September 28, 2014
She continued to say:
Everything from marathons being run, merchandise being created, 15-year-old boys writing to national newspapers deploring female discrimination, young girls collecting hundreds of signatures – it’s all happened in the last four months. I couldn’t have dreamed it, but it’s happened.
I’ve had my breath taken away when a fan told me that since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I’ve been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically.
