奥巴马总统就男女同工同酬问题发表演讲

Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) All right. Well, thanks to myfriend, Lilly Ledbetter, not only for that introduction but for fighting for asimple principle: Equal pay for equalwork. It’s not that complicated. And, Lilly, I assure you, you remain the faceof fair pay. (Laughter.) People don’t want my mug on there. (Laughter.) They want your face. As Lilly mentioned, she did ...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公

The global challenge that I want to talk to you about today 我今天要跟大家谈的全球性挑战 rarely makes the front pages. 很少出现在头版头条 It, however, is enormous 但是,它影响之广,之深, in both scale and importance. 都不可小视。 Look, you all are very well traveled; 这里是TED全球论坛; this is TEDGlobal after all. 相信在座各位一定去过很多地方。 But I do hope to take you to...

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TED演讲之性别无限:社交传媒和性别消失(3)

But I think women are actually going to be — ironically enough — 但我想,很讽刺的是女性的确会 responsible for driving a stake through the heart 挑起大梁, of cheesy genre categories 给予俗气的流派类别狠狠的一击 like the "chick flick" 就像对肥皂剧 and all these other genre categories 和其他的各种体裁 that presume that certain demographic groups 人们总是...

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TED演讲之性别无限:一位敢去开车的沙特妇女

Allow me to start this talk with a question to everyone. 请允许我以一个问题开始 You know that all over the world, 你清楚世界各地 people fight for their freedom, 有人为了自由而奋斗 fight for their rights. 有人为了权利而战 Some battle oppressive governments. 有的人反抗压迫他们的政府 Others battle oppressive societies. 有的人对抗强权的社会阶层 Which battle do you think is harde...

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TED演讲之性别无限:一位敢去开车的沙特妇女(4)

I was asked last year to give a speech 去年我曾被邀请在 at the Oslo Freedom Forum. 奥斯陆自由论坛上做演讲 I was surrounded by this love 我觉得我周围 and the support of people around me, 都是来自人们的爱与支持 and they looked at me as an inspiration. 他们觉得我可以激励他们 At the same time, I flew back to my home country, 不久,我飞回祖国 they hated that speech so much. 发现...

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TED演讲之性别无限:电影中的男子气概(4)

You know, 你知道, as a parent with the privilege 作为一名有着抚养女儿 of raising a daughter 义务的父亲, like all of you who are doing the same thing, 我跟你们所有为人父母的人一样, we find this world and this statistic very alarming 对这个统计数字和这个世界存在危机感, and we want to prepare them. 我们要做好防范。 We have tools at our disposal like "girl power," ...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公(5)

Let me tell you about Saima. 我要告诉你们赛玛的故事。 She lives in a small village outside Lahore, Pakistan. 她住在拉合尔市外的一个小村子,在巴基斯坦。 And at the time, she was miserable. 她当时悲惨到家了。 She was beaten every single day 每一天 by her husband, who was unemployed. 她都被她失业的丈夫殴打。 He was kind of a gambler type — and unemployable, therefore R...

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TED演讲之性别无限:拥抱你的内心少女

Namaste. Good morning. 早上好! I'm very happy to be here in India. 很高兴今天来到印度。 And I've been thinking a lot about what I have learned 过去的十一年,我带着《阴道独白》和V-Day运动, over these last particularly 11 years 走遍了全球, with V-Day and "The Vagina Monologues," 我最近也在认真的反思 traveling the world, 这段经历的意义 essentially meeting w...

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TED演讲之性别无限:一位敢去开车的沙特妇女(5)

But you learn lessons from these things that happen to you. 但人们会从经历中学习 I learned to be always there. 我也是这样 The first thing, I got out of jail, 我从监狱出来的第一件事 of course after I took a shower, I went online, 当然我先洗了个澡 I opened my Twitter account and my Facebook page, 我上网打开推特账号和脸谱 and I've been always very respectful 我对那些对我发...

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TED演讲之性别无限:社交传媒和性别消失(2)

We're able to connect with people quite freely 我们能够更自由地与人联系在一起 and to redefine ourselves online. 在网上重新定义我们自己。 And we can lie about our age online, too, pretty easily. 在网上关于年龄问题我们能很容易地撒谎。 We can also connect with people 我们能按我们个人非常特别的喜好 based on our very specific interests. 来结识人们。 We don't need a media ...

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TED演讲之性别无限:拥抱你的内心少女(2)

I want to talk a little bit about 我今天就希望讲讲这一点 the Democratic Republic of Congo. 首先是民主刚果共和国 For me, it was the turning point of my life. 对我来说,那是一个人生的转折点 I have spent a lot of time there in the last three years. 过去三年,我在那里度过了相当长的一段时间 I feel up to that point I had seen a lot in the world, 在那以前,我觉得自己领略过人间万象 ...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公(7)

So you see how transformative 你已经看到了 little bits of help can be. 微薄的帮助如何带来巨变。 But I want to give you a reality check. 但我还要给你们看看事实。 Look: U.S. aid, helping people is not easy, 美国援助,助人不易。 and there have been books that have criticized U.S. aid. 有些书曾批评过美国援助。 There's Bill Easterly's book. 比如Bill Easterly的书。 There&#...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公(6)

Let me tell you about Beatrice Biira. 下面这个故事有关碧翠斯,比拉. Beatrice was living in Uganda 碧翠斯住在乌干达, near the Congo border, 刚果边界附近, and like Dai Manju, she didn't go to school. 和戴曼君一样,她失学了。 Actually, she had never been to school, 其实她从未去过学校, not to a lick, one day. 一点都没有。 Her parents, again, said, 她的父母也说, "Why...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公(3)

So research has shown, 有研究显示, if you look at people who live under two dollars a day — 那些每天消费两美金以下的人– one metric of poverty — 这绝对是标准的贫困人群– two percent of that take-home pay 他们百分之二的收入 goes to this basket here, in education. 用于这个篮子,教育。 20 percent goes to a basket that is a combination of 百分之二十进了这...

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TED演讲之性别无限:拥抱你的内心少女(3)

I actually realized once in Kosovo, 有一次我去了科索沃 when I watched a man break down, 看到一个男人倒下 that bullets are actually hardened tears, 忽然间想到,原来子弹就是硬化的泪珠啊 that when we don't allow men to have their girl self 当我们不允许男人怀有女孩细胞 and have their vulnerability, and have their compassion, 不允许他们任何的脆弱或同情 and have their hearts, ...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公(2)

And that brings me to my first major 我写《半边天》的两个信条之一 of two tenets of "Half the Sky." 是从这里得到启发的。 And that is that 这一个信条就是 the central moral challenge 本世纪 of this century 最大的伦理道德挑战 is gender inequity. 是性别不公。 In the 19th century, it was slavery. 在19世纪是奴隶制。 In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. 在20世纪是...

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TED演讲之性别无限:电影中的男子气概(3)

Alison Bechdel is a comic book artist, 艾莉森·贝克德尔是一个漫画作家, and back in the mid-'80s, she recorded this conversation 在80年代中期,,她记录下了她和一个朋友 she'd had with a friend about assessing the movies that they saw. 在评估她们看过的电影时的讨论内容。 And it's very simple. There's just three questions you should ask: 非常简单,只有三个问题: Is...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公(4)

Let me tell you about Mahabuba. 我要告诉你们马哈布巴的故事。 She lives in Ethiopia. 她住在埃塞俄比亚。 She was married against her will at age 13. 她13岁时被迫结婚。 She got pregnant, ran to the bush to have the baby, 她怀孕了,试图在灌木丛中生下孩子, but you know, her body was very immature, 但她的身体还那么稚嫩, and she ended up having obstructed labor. 她不幸发生了难产...

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TED演讲之性别无限:一位敢去开车的沙特妇女(3)

So I think by now, everyone knows that we can't drive, 我在想,现在人们都知道我们不能开车 or women are not allowed to drive, in Saudi Arabia, 或者说,在沙特阿拉伯,妇女不允许开车 but maybe few know why. 但很少有人知道其中的缘由 Allow me to help you answer this question. 我来告诉你们吧 There was this official study 根据官方研究 that was presented to the Shura Council R...

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TED演讲之性别无限:本世纪最大的不公(8)

So then, I ask, 我想问的是, what's in it for you? 你可以为此做些什么? You're probably asking that. Why should you care? 你可以正有这个疑问:这于我何干? I will just leave you with two things. 我只再说两点。 One is that research shows 第一,研究显示, that once you have 一旦 all of your material needs taken care of — 你不必再担忧你的物质需求– which most ...

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