Gender Equality Speech at the United Nations by Emma Watson

An actor known mainly for playing a witch in a children's franchise stood at the United Nations and asked a question most campaigns before her had not thought to ask out loud: where were the men? Emma Watson's speech launching the HeForShe campaign is built around that single, deliberately uncomfortable observation, and around an invitation rather than an accusation.

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Speaking at the United Nations in September 2014 to launch the HeForShe campaign, Emma Watson argued that gender inequality harms men as well as women, and that achieving equality requires actively inviting men into a conversation from which they have too often been absent or excluded.

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