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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.82,0:00:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your excellencies,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.23,0:00:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,UN Secretary General,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.22,0:00:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President of the General Assembly,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.96,0:00:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Executive Director of UN Women,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.11,0:00:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and distinguished guests.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.02,0:00:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, we are launching \Na campaign called {\i1}He for She{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.81,0:00:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am reaching out to you \Nbecause we need your help.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.16,0:00:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to end gender inequality,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.59,0:00:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to do this,\Nwe need everyone involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.20,0:00:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the first campaign \Nof its kind at the UN.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.55,0:00:45.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to try and galvanize \Nas many men and boys as possible
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.88,0:00:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be advocates for change.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.73,0:00:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we don't just want to talk about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.33,0:00:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to try and make \Nsure that it's tangible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.04,0:01:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador \Nfor UN Women six months ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.30,0:01:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more I've spoken about feminism,\Nthe more I have realized
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.23,0:01:09.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that fighting for women's rights\Nhas too often become
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.99,0:01:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,synonymous with man-hating.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.70,0:01:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there is one thing I know for certain,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.58,0:01:22.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is that this has to stop.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.06,0:01:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the record,\NFeminism, by definition,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.66,0:01:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the belief that men and women \Nshould have equal rights
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.20,0:01:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and opportunities.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.26,0:01:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the theory \Nof the political, economic,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.10,0:01:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and social equality of the sexes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.67,0:01:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started questioning gender based \Nassumptions a long time ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.91,0:01:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was eight, I was confused\Nabout being called "bossy"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.44,0:01:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I wanted to direct the plays\Nthat we would put on for our parents.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.59,0:02:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the boys were not.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.34,0:02:06.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When, at 14, I started to be sexualized \Nby certain elements of the media.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.26,0:02:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When, at 15, my girlfriends started \Ndropping out of their beloved sports teams
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.57,0:02:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they didn't want to appear muscly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.06,0:02:22.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When, at 18, my male friends \Nwere unable to express their feelings...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.26,0:02:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decided that I was a feminist.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.19,0:02:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this seemed uncomplicated to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.14,0:02:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my recent research has shown me\Nthat feminism has become
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.11,0:02:37.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an unpopular word.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.12,0:02:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women are choosing \Nnot to identify as feminists.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.99,0:02:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apparently, I am among the ranks of women
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.20,0:02:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose expressions are seen \Nas too strong, too aggressive,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.21,0:03:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isolating, and anti-men.\NUnattractive, even.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.85,0:03:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why has the word become \Nsuch an uncomfortable one?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.16,0:03:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am from Britain,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.66,0:03:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think it is right that I am paid\Nthe same as my male counterparts.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.63,0:03:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it is right that I should be able \Nto make decisions about my own body.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.10,0:03:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think--\N- (raucous applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.70,0:03:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it is right\Nthat women be involved,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.94,0:03:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on my behalf, in the policies\Nand the decisions that will affect my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.32,0:03:56.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it is right that, socially,\NI am afforded the same respect as men.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.08,0:04:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But sadly, I can say\Nthat there is no one country
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.68,0:04:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world where all women \Ncan expect to receive these rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.43,0:04:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No country in the world \Ncan yet say that they have
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.66,0:04:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,achieved gender equality.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.37,0:04:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These rights...I consider \Nto be human rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.92,0:04:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I am one of the lucky ones.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.84,0:04:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life is a sheer privilege\Nbecause my parents didn't love me less
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.72,0:04:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- because I was born a daughter.\N- (hooting)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.54,0:04:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My school did not limit me\Nbecause I was a girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.28,0:04:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mentors didn't assume \Nthat I would go less far
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.58,0:04:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I might give birth \Nto a child one day.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.04,0:04:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These influences, \Nwith the Gender Equality Ambassadors
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.87,0:04:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that made me who I am today...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.20,0:05:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they may not know it,\Nbut they are the inadvertent feminists
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.96,0:05:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are changing the world today.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.19,0:05:05.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need more of those.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.67,0:05:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you still hate the word,\Nit is {\i1}not{\i0} the word that is important.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.100,0:05:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the idea and the ambition behind it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.63,0:05:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because not all women have \Nreceived the same rights that I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.04,0:05:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, statistically,\Nvery few have been.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.26,0:05:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1997, Hillary Clinton \Nmade a famous speech in Beijing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.69,0:05:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about women's rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.98,0:05:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly, many of the things that she wanted \Nto change are still true today.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.44,0:05:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what stood out for me the most\Nwas that less than 30%
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.07,0:05:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the audience were male.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.71,0:06:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can we affect change in the world\Nwhen only half of it is invited,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.49,0:06:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or feel welcomed to participate\Nin the conversation?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.77,0:06:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.66,0:06:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to take this opportunity\Nto extend your formal invitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.44,0:06:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.86,0:06:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gender equality is your issue too.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.43,0:06:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, to date,\NI've seen my father's role
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.11,0:06:41.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a parent being valued less\Nby society, despite
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.100,0:06:45.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my needing his presence as a child\Nas much as my mother's.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.41,0:06:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen young men \Nsuffering from mental illness,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.12,0:06:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unable to ask for help,\Nfor fear it would make them
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.43,0:06:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less of a men--\Nor less of a man.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.40,0:07:04.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, in the UK,\Nsuicide is the biggest killer of men
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.09,0:07:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between 20-49, eclipsing road accidents,\Ncancer, and coronary heart disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.17,0:07:18.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen men made fragile \Nand insecure by a distorted sense
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.17,0:07:22.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what constitutes male success.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.85,0:07:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Men don't have \Nthe benefits of equality either.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.65,0:07:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't often talk about men \Nbeing imprisoned by gender stereotypes,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.16,0:07:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can see that they are,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.83,0:07:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that when they are free,\Nthings will change for women
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.12,0:07:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a natural consequence.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.51,0:07:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If men don't have to be aggressive\Nin order to be accepted,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.24,0:07:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women won't feel \Ncompelled to be submissive.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.39,0:07:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If men don't have to control,\Nwomen won't have to be controlled.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.47,0:08:03.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both men and women \Nshould feel free to be sensitive.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.38,0:08:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both men and women \Nshould feel free to be strong.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.07,0:08:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is time that we all perceived\Ngender on a spectrum,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.97,0:08:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of two sets of opposing ideals.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.58,0:08:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.18,0:08:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Ms. Watson) If we stop defining \Neach other by what we are not,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.86,0:08:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start defining ourselves \Nby who we are, we can all be freer.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.02,0:08:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is what {\i1}He for She{\i0} is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.48,0:08:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.54,0:08:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want men to take up this mantle,\Nso that their daughters,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.38,0:08:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sisters, and mothers \Ncan be free from prejudice.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.82,0:08:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But also so that their sons have permission\Nto be vulnerable and human too,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.97,0:08:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reclaim those parts \Nof themselves they abandoned,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.14,0:09:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, in doing so, be a more true \Nand complete version of themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.43,0:09:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might be thinking,\N"Who is this Harry Potter girl?"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.75,0:09:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (laughter)\N- "And what is she doing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.38,0:09:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- speaking at the UN?"\N- And it's a really good question.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.71,0:09:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been asking myself the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.45,0:09:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I know is that I care \Nabout this problem, and I want
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.05,0:09:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make it better.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.14,0:09:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And having seen what I've seen,\Nand given the chance,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.61,0:09:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel it is my responsibility\Nto say something.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.56,0:09:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Statesman Edmund Burke said,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.44,0:09:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"All that is needed \Nfor the forces of evil to triumph
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.64,0:09:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is for good men and women\Nto do nothing."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.83,0:09:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my nervousness for this speech,\Nand in my moments of doubt,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.39,0:09:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've told myself firmly,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.57,0:10:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If not me, who?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.30,0:10:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If not now, when?"
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.37,0:10:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have similar doubts \Nwhen opportunites are presented to you,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.89,0:10:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope that those words will be helpful
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.07,0:10:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.76,0:10:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the reality is that if we do nothing,\Nit will take 75 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.31,0:10:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or for me to be nearly 100,\Nbefore women can expect
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.26,0:10:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be paid the same as men.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.48,0:10:36.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the same work.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.96,0:10:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,15.5 million girls will be married \Nin the next 16 years as children.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.46,0:10:53.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, at current rates, it won't be until \N2086 before all rural African girls
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.15,0:10:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can have a secondary education.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.40,0:11:02.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you believe in equality,\Nyou might be one of those
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.89,0:11:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inadvertent feminists \Nthat I spoke of earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.92,0:11:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, for this, I applaud you.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.75,0:11:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are struggling for a uniting word,\Nbut the good news is that we have
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.27,0:11:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a uniting movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.100,0:11:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is called {\i1}He for She{\i0}.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.79,0:11:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am inviting you to step forward,\Nto be seen, and to ask yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.78,0:11:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If not me, who?\NIf not now, when?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.21,0:11:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Thank you very, very much.\N- (applause)