I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women 6 months ago,and the more I’ve 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 political, economic and social equality of the sexes.
6个月前，我被任命为任联合国妇女署亲善大使。我对女权主义说的越多，越发现为妇女权利的斗争往往成为仇恨男人的代名词。这是必须应该停止的。女权主义，顾名思义，就是男性和女性应该享有同样的权利和机会。它是有关于政治、经济和社会等方面性别平等的理论。
I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago.When I was 8, I was confused for being called “bossy ” because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents, but the boys were not. When at 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams because they didn’t want to appear muscly. When at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.I decided that I was a
feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently, I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too
aggressive, isolating, and anti-men, unattractive even.
我从很久之前就开始质疑基于性别歧视的假设。我8岁的时候，因为想要自己导演一次为父母表演的节目，结果被说是霸道，但是男生却不会被这么说，我对此感到很困惑。14岁的时候，我开始被媒体的特定元素性别化；15岁时，我的女性朋友们放弃了她们喜爱的球队，只因为她们不想看起来肌肉发达；18岁的时候，我决定成为一个女性主义者时，我的男性朋友们拒绝表达他们的感受。这对我而言，非常简单。但通过我最近的研究发现，女性主义却是一个非常不被接受的词语。很多女性也不愿意被定义为女权主义者。显然，我跻身于强烈表达自身想法的女性之间了，被认为‘太嚣张了’，被认为是孤立的，仇视男性，甚至没有吸引力。
Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one? I am from Britain, and I think it is right that 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 decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.
为什么这个词已变得那么令人不爽？我来自英国，我认为和男同事得到平等对待是正确的；我认为能够为自己的身体做决定是正确的；我认为（被掌声打断）……我认为女性能够代表我的利益、参与制定能影响到我的决策和决定是正确的。我认为，在社会层面上我能和男性们同样被尊重是正确的。
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 that they have achieved gender equality. These rights, I considered to be human rights.But I am one of the lucky ones.
但遗憾的是，我可以说，世界上没有一个国家的所有女性都可以指望得到这些权利。世界上也没有一个国家能说，他们已经实现了性别平等。这些权利，我认为是人权。
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 that I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing in the world today. We need more of those.And if you still hate the word, it is not the word that is important. It is the idea and the ambition behind it because not all women have received the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
但我是一个幸运的人，我的生命纯粹是一种特权，因为我的父母没有因为我是女孩儿而不爱我，我的学校没有因为我是一个女孩儿而限制我，我的导师没有因为我有一天可能会生孩子而认为我没有多大发展。他们是性别平等的大使，让我成为了今天的我。他们也许不知道，但他们无意间成为了改变着现今世界的女权主义者。我们需要更多的人参与其中，如果你还恨这个词，你要意识到这个词本身并不重要。它背后的思想更为重要。因为不是所有的女性都能享受到和我同样的权利。事实上，据统计，很少女性享有这样的权利。
In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today. But what stood out for me the most was that less than 30% of the audience were male. How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcomed to participate in the conversation? Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
1997年，希拉里·克林顿在北京做了一场关于妇女权利的著名演讲。不幸的是，她想改变的许多事情在今天仍然存在着。站在我面前的听众中，男性还不到30%。如果只有那么少的男性愿意参与到我们的交流中，我们还谈何去改变世界？男性朋友们，我想借此机会向你们发出正式邀请。
Gender equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society. Despite my need of his presence as a child, as much as my mother’s. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them less of a man, or less of a man. In fact, in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.
性别平等也是你们应该关心的议题。因为到目前为止，尽管对孩子来说，父亲的存在非常重要，但社会上对父亲角色的重要性认识程度仍远低于母亲的角色。我
看到年轻的男性承受着重大的精神压力，但不能向他人寻求帮助，因为害怕被说成是不像个男人。事实上，在英国，自杀是20岁-49岁男性最大的死因，超过了道路交通事故、癌症和冠状动脉心脏病。我见过有些男性因为扭曲的成功观而脆弱，产生不安全感。男性们也没有享受到平等的权利.
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that they are. And when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong. It is time that we all preceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideals. If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are. We can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom. I want men to take up this mantle so that their daughters,
sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too, reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so, be a more true and complete version of themselves.
我不想说男性们被性别刻板印象所禁锢，但是我可以看到事实上确实如此。当他们自由的时候，自然而然，女性也会得到改变。如果男性不必非要有野心，女性自然也不必非得被迫顺从。如果男性不必去控制，女性也不必被控制。这时我们
就能看到两性和谐相处而不是互相对立了。我们应该停止为彼此定义。我们是谁？我们可以更自由，这就是HeForShe 运动的意义所在。这是关于自由的运动。我希望男性们可以参与其中，这样他们的女儿、母亲、姐妹可以摆脱偏见，他们的儿子可以被允许脆弱、平凡，成为更真实、更完整的自己。
You might be thinking: who is this Harry Potter girl? What is she doing at the UN? That’s a really good question. I’ve been asking myself the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem and I want to make it better. And having seen what I’ve seen and given the chance, I feel it is my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said all that is need for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing. 你可能会想：这个演《哈利·波特》的女孩儿是谁？她在联合国是做什么的？这是一个很好的问题，我也一直在问自己同样的问题。我所知道的就是我关心这个问题，我想把它解答得更好。就我所发现的，如果我有机会，我认为我有责任要说些什么。政治家埃德蒙·伯克曾说，好人袖手旁观，邪恶就胜利。
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt, I’ve told myself firmly: if not me, who? If not now, when? If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you, I hope that those
words will be helpful. Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years or for me to be nearly 100 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 years as children. And at current rates, it won’t be
until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education. 在为这个演讲紧张而自我怀疑时，我告诉自己必须要坚持：如果我不说，那么谁来说？如果此时不说？那么何时说？如果你也有类似的疑虑，我希望这些话能够帮助到你。因为现实确实如此，如果我们什么都不做，可能再过75年，甚至接近100年，女性们都还不能和男性们同工同酬。按照目前的数字计算，在未来16年内，将有1550万女性会结婚。而直到2086年前，所有的非洲农村女孩都不能享受中等教育。
If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke of earlier and for this I applaud you. We must
struggling for a uniting word but the good news is that we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. 如果你坚信性别平等，那么你已经在不经意间成为了女权主义者，我为你喝彩！我们正在为团结一致而努力，好消息就是，我们现在有了一个团结一致的活动，那就是HeForShe 运动。
I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen and ask yourself: if not me, who? If not now, when? Thank you.
我邀请你们站出来，问问自己：如果我不做，那么谁来做？如果此时不做？那么等到何时？非常，非常感谢。
I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women 6 months ago,and the more I’ve 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 political, economic and social equality of the sexes.
6个月前，我被任命为任联合国妇女署亲善大使。我对女权主义说的越多，越发现为妇女权利的斗争往往成为仇恨男人的代名词。这是必须应该停止的。女权主义，顾名思义，就是男性和女性应该享有同样的权利和机会。它是有关于政治、经济和社会等方面性别平等的理论。
I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago.When I was 8, I was confused for being called “bossy ” because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents, but the boys were not. When at 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media. When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams because they didn’t want to appear muscly. When at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.I decided that I was a
feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently, I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too
aggressive, isolating, and anti-men, unattractive even.
我从很久之前就开始质疑基于性别歧视的假设。我8岁的时候，因为想要自己导演一次为父母表演的节目，结果被说是霸道，但是男生却不会被这么说，我对此感到很困惑。14岁的时候，我开始被媒体的特定元素性别化；15岁时，我的女性朋友们放弃了她们喜爱的球队，只因为她们不想看起来肌肉发达；18岁的时候，我决定成为一个女性主义者时，我的男性朋友们拒绝表达他们的感受。这对我而言，非常简单。但通过我最近的研究发现，女性主义却是一个非常不被接受的词语。很多女性也不愿意被定义为女权主义者。显然，我跻身于强烈表达自身想法的女性之间了，被认为‘太嚣张了’，被认为是孤立的，仇视男性，甚至没有吸引力。
Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one? I am from Britain, and I think it is right that 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 decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.
为什么这个词已变得那么令人不爽？我来自英国，我认为和男同事得到平等对待是正确的；我认为能够为自己的身体做决定是正确的；我认为（被掌声打断）……我认为女性能够代表我的利益、参与制定能影响到我的决策和决定是正确的。我认为，在社会层面上我能和男性们同样被尊重是正确的。
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 that they have achieved gender equality. These rights, I considered to be human rights.But I am one of the lucky ones.
但遗憾的是，我可以说，世界上没有一个国家的所有女性都可以指望得到这些权利。世界上也没有一个国家能说，他们已经实现了性别平等。这些权利，我认为是人权。
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 that I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today. They may not know it but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing in the world today. We need more of those.And if you still hate the word, it is not the word that is important. It is the idea and the ambition behind it because not all women have received the same rights that I have. In fact, statistically, very few have been.
但我是一个幸运的人，我的生命纯粹是一种特权，因为我的父母没有因为我是女孩儿而不爱我，我的学校没有因为我是一个女孩儿而限制我，我的导师没有因为我有一天可能会生孩子而认为我没有多大发展。他们是性别平等的大使，让我成为了今天的我。他们也许不知道，但他们无意间成为了改变着现今世界的女权主义者。我们需要更多的人参与其中，如果你还恨这个词，你要意识到这个词本身并不重要。它背后的思想更为重要。因为不是所有的女性都能享受到和我同样的权利。事实上，据统计，很少女性享有这样的权利。
In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women’s rights. Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today. But what stood out for me the most was that less than 30% of the audience were male. How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcomed to participate in the conversation? Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
1997年，希拉里·克林顿在北京做了一场关于妇女权利的著名演讲。不幸的是，她想改变的许多事情在今天仍然存在着。站在我面前的听众中，男性还不到30%。如果只有那么少的男性愿意参与到我们的交流中，我们还谈何去改变世界？男性朋友们，我想借此机会向你们发出正式邀请。
Gender equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society. Despite my need of his presence as a child, as much as my mother’s. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for fear it would make them less of a man, or less of a man. In fact, in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.
性别平等也是你们应该关心的议题。因为到目前为止，尽管对孩子来说，父亲的存在非常重要，但社会上对父亲角色的重要性认识程度仍远低于母亲的角色。我
看到年轻的男性承受着重大的精神压力，但不能向他人寻求帮助，因为害怕被说成是不像个男人。事实上，在英国，自杀是20岁-49岁男性最大的死因，超过了道路交通事故、癌症和冠状动脉心脏病。我见过有些男性因为扭曲的成功观而脆弱，产生不安全感。男性们也没有享受到平等的权利.
We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that they are. And when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong. It is time that we all preceive gender on a spectrum, instead of two sets of opposing ideals. If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are. We can all be freer and this is what HeForShe is about. It’s about freedom. I want men to take up this mantle so that their daughters,
sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too, reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so, be a more true and complete version of themselves.
我不想说男性们被性别刻板印象所禁锢，但是我可以看到事实上确实如此。当他们自由的时候，自然而然，女性也会得到改变。如果男性不必非要有野心，女性自然也不必非得被迫顺从。如果男性不必去控制，女性也不必被控制。这时我们
就能看到两性和谐相处而不是互相对立了。我们应该停止为彼此定义。我们是谁？我们可以更自由，这就是HeForShe 运动的意义所在。这是关于自由的运动。我希望男性们可以参与其中，这样他们的女儿、母亲、姐妹可以摆脱偏见，他们的儿子可以被允许脆弱、平凡，成为更真实、更完整的自己。
You might be thinking: who is this Harry Potter girl? What is she doing at the UN? That’s a really good question. I’ve been asking myself the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem and I want to make it better. And having seen what I’ve seen and given the chance, I feel it is my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said all that is need for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing. 你可能会想：这个演《哈利·波特》的女孩儿是谁？她在联合国是做什么的？这是一个很好的问题，我也一直在问自己同样的问题。我所知道的就是我关心这个问题，我想把它解答得更好。就我所发现的，如果我有机会，我认为我有责任要说些什么。政治家埃德蒙·伯克曾说，好人袖手旁观，邪恶就胜利。
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt, I’ve told myself firmly: if not me, who? If not now, when? If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you, I hope that those
words will be helpful. Because the reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years or for me to be nearly 100 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 years as children. And at current rates, it won’t be
until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education. 在为这个演讲紧张而自我怀疑时，我告诉自己必须要坚持：如果我不说，那么谁来说？如果此时不说？那么何时说？如果你也有类似的疑虑，我希望这些话能够帮助到你。因为现实确实如此，如果我们什么都不做，可能再过75年，甚至接近100年，女性们都还不能和男性们同工同酬。按照目前的数字计算，在未来16年内，将有1550万女性会结婚。而直到2086年前，所有的非洲农村女孩都不能享受中等教育。
If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke of earlier and for this I applaud you. We must
struggling for a uniting word but the good news is that we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. 如果你坚信性别平等，那么你已经在不经意间成为了女权主义者，我为你喝彩！我们正在为团结一致而努力，好消息就是，我们现在有了一个团结一致的活动，那就是HeForShe 运动。
I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen and ask yourself: if not me, who? If not now, when? Thank you.
我邀请你们站出来，问问自己：如果我不做，那么谁来做？如果此时不做？那么等到何时？非常，非常感谢。