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Emma Watson is a fighter. The seemingly soft-spoken actress who grew up on the bigscreen in the massively popular Harry Potter series is proving she has quitethe voice. The 24-year-old appeared at the WorldEconomic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to continue pushingfor gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Emma attended the launch of HeForShe in September in NYC Photo: Getty Images
The British actress, who graduated from Brown University with a degree in English literature in 2014, was on hand to unveil the new HeForShe IMPACT10X10X10 initiative which will take big strides to minimize the gender gapacross the world. Speaking to world leaders, the Noah star started out by saying, “Since HeForShe launched in NewYork last September, I think it would be fair to say that my colleagues and Ihave been stunned by the response.
“TheHeForShe conference was watched over 11 million times, sparking 1.2 billionsocial media conversations, culminating in the #HeForShe hashtag becoming sopopular that Twitter painted it on the walls of its headquarters. And men fromalmost every country in the world signed up to our commitment.”
The UN Goodwill Ambassador continues to speak out against gender inequality Photo Credit: Getty Images
So far, alongwith Emma, Prince Harry, Hillary Clinton and Yoko Ono have shown their support.Emma added, “Everything from marathons being run, merchandise being created,15-year-old boys writing to national newspapers deploring femalediscrimination, young girls collecting hundreds of signatures — it’s all happenedin the last four months. I couldn’t have dreamed it, but it’s happened.”
Emma first becameinvolved with the United Nations last year and was named a UN Goodwill Ambassadorin the summer. In September, she was on hand for the HeForShe campaign launchin New York City where she revealed that she has faced sexism since the age of8 when she was called “bossy” for wanting to direct the school plays.
From there, sheadded that the labeling of staunch feminists as “man-haters” has to end.
We hope people take notice and love the way Emma is using her stardom for good. Keep doing what you are doing — your message is being heard loud and clear.
Watch her speech at Davos here: