This is a news article about Gender Equality. I think that this is a very important topic to think about. I chose Emma Watson because she did a lot of things to fight against Gender Equality.
I hope you like it and remember to think about it.
MEN AND WOMEN TOGETHER FOR THE GENDER EQUALITY!
THE
ACTRESS OF HARRY POTTER RECEIVE THE
“PERSON OF THE YEAR” AWARD
Yesterday, 10th of April 2016, Emma Watson the actress of
Harry Potter received in the UK the most prestigious and important award: the Person
of the year award.
She received this important award
because of her fight in favor of gender equality.
Watson
began questioning gender-based assumptions at age eight when she was
called "bossy" whilst boys were not and at 14 when she was
"sexualized by certain elements of the media".
In 2014, she was
appointed as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. That same year she was named the first
representative in the campaign called HeForShe to show to the people that women
but also men have to work together to the achievement of gender equality. In
the speech she said: 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 truer and complete version of themselves.
Emma has also
promoted education for girls, visiting Bangladesh and Zambia to do
so and she has done a lot of speeches around the world. She defends and also
remembers other people the meaning of feminist "the belief that men and
women should have equal rights and opportunities" and she also remembered
that this doesn’t mean the hating of men.
She
made people think about gender equality with her speeches and in 2015 Malala Yousafzai told
Watson she decided to call herself a feminist after hearing her speech.
