女神安妮·海瑟薇联合国霸气演讲：我不做公主，要做自己的女王
继妮可·基德曼、艾玛·沃特森之后，安妮·海瑟薇也成为联合国亲善大使，而她的主要任务是促进性别平等，为女权发声。
联合国妇女署的执行董事Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka表示，安妮·海瑟薇的加入是为了帮助女性摆脱“母亲惩罚”。
此前，根据美国电视台ABC News报导，联合国妇女署执行主任Mlambo-Ngcuka表示，海瑟薇一直为女性权益发声，希望她可以让社会各界关注到，女性在家庭中往往承担较多责任，使得这成为性别不平等的主要因素之一。
在这场演讲中，美国的产假是无薪的，这无形中给很多家庭带来了经济压力，女性不得不早早地离开自己的孩子，回到工作岗位。身为人母的海瑟薇呼吁美国给予女性带薪产假，同时也给男性放产假的机会，令男女之间更加平等。
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When I was a very young person, my career as an actress. Whenever my mother wasn’t free to drive me into Manhattan for au, take the train from suburban New Jersey and meet my father – who would have left his desk at the law office where he worked – and we would meet under the Upper Platform Arrival(s) an(s) sign in Penn Station. We would then get on the subway together and when we surfaced, he would ask me, “Which way is north?” I wasn’t very good at f north in the beg, but fair amount and so my Dad kept asking me, “Which way is north?” Over time, I got better at f it.
I was struck by that memory yesterday while boarding the plane to come here – not just by how far my life has come since then, but by how mean that seemingly small lesson has been. When I was still a child, my father my sense of and now, as an adult, my ability to navigate space. My father helped give me the conf to guide myself through the world.
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Maternity leave, or any workplace policy based on gender, can – at this moment in h – only ever be a gilded cage. Though it was created to make life easier for women, we now know it creates a perception of women as being to the workplace. We now know it chains men to an emot l path. And it cannot, by , serve the reality of a world in which there is more than one type of family. Because in the modern world, some families have two . How exactly does maternity leave serve them?
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I see cause for hope. In my own country, the Unite – currently, the only high country in the worl pa, let alone parental leave – great work has begun in the states of New York, Cal, New Jersey, Rhode an, which are currently all pa leave programs. First Lady Charlene McCray an Bill de Blasio have granted pa leave to over 20,000 government employees in New York City. We can do this.
r about change cannot just be the respons of those who need it most; we must have the support of those in the h levels of power if we are ever to achieve parity. That is why it is such an honor to recognize an p of pa leave like the global company . Today, I am proud to announce Global CEO, Emmanuel Faber, as our HeForShe Thematic Champion for Pa Leave. As part of this announcement, will a global 18 weeks’, gender-neutral pa leave policy for the company’s 100,000 employees by the year 2020. Monsieur Faber, when Ambassador Emma Watson her now HeForShe speech an that if we live in a worl men occupy a majority of pos of power, we need men to believe in the necessity of change, she was speaking about v like you. Merci.
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We must ask ourselves, how will we be more tomorrow than we are today?
The whole worl when people like you and me take a stand, because we know that beyond the idea of how women and men are , there is a truth that love is love, an are parents.
Thank you.
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