【51Talk-联合国演讲稿】安妮·海瑟薇2017年国际妇女节在联合国的演讲(中英)

安妮·海瑟薇2017年国际妇女节在联合国的演讲

安妮·海瑟薇，作为联合国妇女亲善大使(UN Women goodwill ambassador)，亮相联合国三·八妇女节活动，为女性发声，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。

President of the General Assembly, United Nations, UN Deputy Secretary-General, Executive Director, UN Women, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen,

尊敬的联合国大会主席、联合国副秘书长、联合国妇女署执行理事、尊敬的女士们、先生们: When I was a very young person, I began my career as an actress. Whenever my mother wasn't free to drive me into Manhattan for auditions, I would 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) and Departure(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 finding north in the beginning, but I auditioned fair amount and so my Dad kept asking me, "Which way is north?" Over time, I got better at finding it. 当我很小的时候，我开始了我的演员生涯。每当我母亲没有时间开车送我去曼哈顿试镜时，我会从新泽西郊区坐火车去见我父亲——他会离开他工作的法律事务所的办公桌——我们会在宾夕法尼亚车站高台下“出发到达”的标志下见面。然后我们一起上地铁，当我们走出地铁站时，他会问我，“哪边是北？”一开始我不太擅长寻找北方，但是我试了很多次，所以我爸爸一直问我，“哪边是北方？”随着时间的推移，我的有了很好的方向感。

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 meaningful that seemingly small lesson has been. When I was still a child, my father developed my sense of direction and now, as an adult, I trust my ability to navigate space. My father helped give me the confidence to guide myself through the world.

昨天上飞机来到这里时，我突然想起这段记忆，感触良多——不仅是因为从那以后我的人生开始转变，还因为这堂看似微不足道的课其实意义非凡。当我还是个孩子的时候，我的父亲培养了我的方向感，现在，作为一个成年人，我坚信自己进行探索的能力。我父亲帮助我树立了信心，引导我探索这个世界。

In late March, last year, 2016, I became a parent for the first time. I remember the indescribable – and as I understand it pretty universal – experience of holding my week-old son and feeling my priorities change on a cellular level. I remember I experienced a shift in consciousness that gave me the ability to maintain my love of career and also cherish something else, someone else, so much, much more. Like so many parents, I wondered how I was going to balance my work with my new role as a parent, and in that moment, I remember that the statistic for the US's policy on maternity leave flashed in my mind.

2016年3月末，我初为人母。我记得那种难以形容的感觉，我知道这是相当普遍的，当抱着我一周大的儿子，感觉我的所有头等大事从根本上发生了改变，我记得我经历了意识上的转变。这使我能够保持我对事业的爱，并同时更加地珍惜其他的东西，其他的人。像很多父母那样，我考虑着该如何在工作和为人父母方面寻得平衡。有关美国产假的现状政策，在我

脑海中一闪而过。

American women are currently entitled to 12 weeks unpaid leave. American men are entitled to nothing. That information landed differently for me when one week after my son's birth, I could barely walk. That information landed differently when I was getting to know a human who was completely dependent on my husband and I for everything, when I was dependent on my husband for most things, and when we were relearning everything we thought we knew about our family and our relationship. It landed differently.

目前，美国女性享有12周无薪产假的权利，而美国男性在这方面却什么都没有。当我儿子出生一周后，我几乎不能走路时，我开始逐渐了解这个小小的新生命必须完完全全依赖于我和我丈夫，而我呢，我在大多数事情上也得依靠我丈夫，我们本以为对家庭和夫妻关系非常了解，如今却有了新的认识。折让我们的感受完全不同。

Somehow, we and every American parent were expected to be "back to normal" in under three months. Without income? I remember thinking to myself, "If the practical reality of pregnancy is another mouth to feed in your home, and America is a country where most people are living paycheck to paycheck, how does 12 weeks unpaid leave economically work?

不知何故，我们和每一位美国家长都被期望在三个月内“恢复正常”。没有收入？我扪心自问，“如果怀孕面临的现实就是家里多了一张嘴要喂养，而美国这个国度，几乎人人都是月光族，那么这12周无薪假如何能让人在经济上维系下去？

The truth is: for too many people, it doesn't. One in four American women go back to work two weeks after giving birth because they can't afford to take any more time off than that. That is 25 per cent of American women. Equally disturbing, women who can afford to take the full 12 weeks often don't, because it will mean incurring a "motherhood penalty" –meaning they will be perceived as less dedicated to their job and will be passed over for promotions and other career advancement.

真相是：对于多数人而言，这是无法负担的。4个美国女性中就有1个在产后2周内回归工作岗位，因为她们承担不起更长时间的产假。这可占了美国女性总数的25%。同样令人不安的是，那些可以休满12周产假的女性却通常选择不这么做。因为休产假会招致“为人母的惩罚”，意味着她们会被认为事业心不强，从而错失升职机会和其他职场晋升。

In my own household, my mother had to choose between a career and raising three children – a choice that left her unpaid and underappreciated as a homemaker –because there just wasn't support for both paths. The memory of being in the city with my Dad is a particularly meaningful one since he was the sole breadwinner in our house, and my brothers' and my time with him was always limited by how much he had to work. And we were an incredibly privileged family – our hardships were the stuff of other family's dreams.

在我自己的家里，我母亲不得不在事业和抚养三个孩子之间做出选择——既没有报酬，也没有赞赏——因为她得不到政策支持去兼顾这二者。和爸爸在城里的记忆，意义非常深刻，因为他是我们家唯一的养家糊口的人，而我的兄弟们和我和他在一起的时间总是受到他必须

工作多少的限制。而我们已经算是富足的家庭了——我们的富足，对许多家庭而言都是一种奢侈。

The deeper into the issue of paid parental leave I go, the clearer I see the connection between persisting barriers to women's full equality and empowerment, and the need to redefine and in some cases, destigmatize men's role as caregivers. In other words…thank you. In other words, in order to liberate women, we need to liberate men.

对带薪产假的思考越深入，我就越清楚地意识到无薪产假，是阻碍女性平权和她们赋权道路上的顽固障碍。而且，必须重新定义男性角色，并消除人们对于男性承担育儿责任的偏见。换言之，想要解放女性，我们先得解放男性。

The assumption and common practice that women and girls look after the home and the family is a stubborn and very real stereotype that not only discriminates against women, but limits men's participation and connection within the family and society. These limitations have broad-ranging and significant effects for them and for the children. We know this. So why do we continue to undervalue fathers and overburden mothers?

由妇女和女孩照顾家庭是普遍现象，这也被视为理所当然，其实这是根深蒂固的偏见，这不仅是对女性的歧视，更是对男性参与并融入家庭和社会的限制。这些限制会对男性及他们的后代，产生广泛深刻的影响。我们深谙此道。那为何还要继续看轻父亲的角色，并让母亲承担过重的负担？

Paid parental leave is not about taking days off work; it's about creating the freedom to define roles, to choose how to invest time, and to establish new, positive cycles of behavior. Companies that have offered paid parental leave for employees have reported improved employee retention, reduced absenteeism and on-training costs, and boosted productivity and morale. Far from not being able to afford to have paid parental leave, it seems we can't afford not to.

带薪休产假不是休假这么简单，更重要的是，创造一种界定角色的自由，去选择怎样分配时间，养成新的、积极的行为模式。为员工提供带薪育儿假的公司，有报告表明，他们的员工稳定性提高、缺勤率和在职培训成本有所降低，生产率和士气也有所提高。决不是我们负担不起带薪产假，反倒是我们负担不起不这样做。

In fact, a study in Sweden showed that per every month fathers took paternity leave, the mothers' income increased by 6.7 per cent. That's 6.7 per cent more economic freedom for the whole family. Data from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey shows that most fathers report that they would work less if it meant that they could spend more time with their children. And picking up on the threat the prime minister mentioned, I'd like to ask: How many of us here today saw our Dads enough growing up? How many of you Dads here see your kids enough now?

事实上，瑞典的一项研究显示，父亲陪妻子休产假的每个月，母亲收入都会增加6.7%，折让全家的经济自由度提高了6.7%。另外，国际男性和性别平等调查研究显示，大多数父亲表示，他们愿意缩短工作时间，只要能够和自己的孩子更多时间相处。根据刚刚大会主席提及的一个思路，我想问下在座的各位，在成长过程中，我们中有多少人有足够的时间与父亲

相处？在场的父亲们，又有几人花足够的时间陪伴孩子？

We need to help each other if we are going to grow.

如果我们想要成长，就必须互相帮助。

Along with UN Women, I am issuing a call to action for countries, companies and institutions globally to step up and become champions for paid parental leave. In 2013, provisions for paid parental leave were in only 66 countries out of 190 UN member states. I look forward to beginning with the UN itself which has not yet achieved parity and whose paid parental leave policies are currently up for review. Oh, you're going to see a lot of me. Let us lead by example in creating a world in which women and men are not economically punished for wanting to be parents. 联通联合国妇联署，我要呼吁世界各国政府、企业和机构，全都行动起来，一起加速向前迈进，成为带薪产假的领军者。截止2013年，联合国190个成员国中，只有66个有带薪产假的规定。我期望，能从尚未实现产假平等的联合国成员国开始，还有那些正在审核带薪产假政策的国家。我会经常在这里出现的。我们要以身作则、做出表率，去创造一个世界，在这个世界，没有人会因为成为父母，而遭遇经济上的窘境。

I don't mean to imply that you need to have children to care about and benefit from this issue – whether or not you have – or want – kids, you will benefit by living in a more evolved world with policies not based on gender. We all benefit from living in a more compassionate time where our needs do not make us weak, they make us fully human.

我不是在暗示说，你们必须生小孩并从中牟利，无论你是否有孩子买或者是想要孩子，我们都将受益于生活在一个更进步、不再有性别不公政策的世界。我们都会受益于生活在一个更有怜悯心的时代。我们的需求，并不会让我们显得脆弱，而会展示出我们真正的人性。Maternity leave, or any workplace policy based on gender, can – at this moment in history – 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 inconvenient to the workplace. We now know it chains men to an emotionally limited path. And it cannot, by definition, 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 daddies. How exactly does maternity leave serve them?

母亲产假，或任何基于性别的职场制度，目前来看不过是镀金牢笼。虽然，这些制度是为了让女性生活得更容易一点，但我们现在知道，它给人造成一种印象，即职场有女性很不方便。同时，它还限制了男性情感的表达。从定义上讲，母亲产假在现实世界中也没有可行性，毕竟还有各种不同形态的家庭。在现代社会中，有些家庭会有两个爸爸，他们到底该怎么使用母亲产假呢？

Today, on International Women's Day, I would like to thank all of those who went before in creating our current policies – let us honour them and build upon what they started by shifting our language – and therefore our consciousness – away from gender and towards opportunity. Let us honor our own parents sacrifice by creating a path for a more fair, farther-reaching truth to define all of our lives, especially the lives of our children.

今天，在国际妇女节之际，我想感谢所有那些创造了现有产假政策的人们，让我向他们致敬，并在他们创造的基础上，转变语言和认知，同时也转变我们的思想，将关注重点由性别对立，转向机遇。让我们也向父母做出的牺牲致敬，他们开辟道路，给我们的生命赋予一种更公平、更深远的意义，尤其是赋予我们的孩子而言。

Because paid parental leave does more than give more time for parents to spend with their kids. It changes the story of what children observe, and will, from themselves, imagine possible.

因为带薪产假能够带来的不仅是让父母有更多时间陪伴孩子，它更是改变了孩子们的认知，让他们从自身出发想象无限可能。

I see cause for hope. In my own country, the United States – currently, the only high income country in the world without paid maternity, let alone parental leave – great work has begun in the states of New York, California, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington, which are currently all implementing paid parental leave programs. First Lady Charlene McCray and Mayor Bill de Blasio have granted paid parental leave to over 20,000 government employees in New York City. We can do this.

我看到寄予期待的理由。我的祖国美国，目前是世界上唯一一个没有女性带薪产假的高收入国家，更别提育婴双亲假了。但改变已经出现，纽约州、加利福尼亚州、新泽西州、罗德岛州，还有华盛顿，以上这些地方，都正在实行带薪产假项目。第一夫人沙林·麦克雷和市长比尔·白毫斯，已经批准了超过2万名纽约政府员工的带薪产假。我们能够做到！Bringing about change cannot just be the responsibility of those who need it most;

we must have the support of those in the highest levels of power if we are ever to achieve parity. That is why it is such an honor to recognize and congratulate pioneers of paid parental leave like the global company Danone. Today, I am proud to announce Danone Global CEO, Emmanuel Faber, as our inaugural HeForShe Thematic Champion for Paid Parental Leave. As part of this announcement, Danone will implement a global 18 weeks', gender-neutral paid parental leave policy for the company's 100,000 employees by the year 2020. Monsieur Faber, when Ambassador Emma Watson delivered her now iconic HeForShe speech and stated that if we live in a world where men occupy a majority of positions of power, we need men to believe in the necessity of change, I believe she was speaking about visionaries like you. Merci.

实现带薪产假的变革责任并不在于那些最迫切需要的人身上。如果我们要实现性别平等，就必须得到最高权力阶层的支持。这也是为何这是一项无上的荣耀，我们要认可并祝贺为带薪产假做出贡献的先驱们，比如跨国企业达能集团。今天，我自豪地宣布达能全球首席执行官伊曼纽尔·费伯成为首届HeForShe带薪产假主题活动的冠军。作为此项申明一部分，达能将在2020年前为公司遍布全球的10万名员工实施一项不分性别的18周带薪育儿假政策。费伯先生，此前艾玛·沃森大使发表了著名的HeForShe演说，她曾说，如果我们生活在一个男性掌握大权的世界里，则必须要让男人相信变革的必要性，我相信她说的是像你这样的有远见的人。谢谢。

Imagine what the world could look like one generation from now if a policy like Danone's becomes the new standard; if 100,000 people become 100 million, a

billion, more…

试想一下，这个世界将会变成怎样，如果从我们这代人开始，达能集团的政策成为一种新标准，如果10万人变成1亿，10亿，甚至更多…

Every generation must find their north.

每一代人都要找到自己的方向。

When women around the world demanded the right to vote, we took a fundamental step towards equality. North.

当全世界的女性要求投票权的时候，我们向平等迈出了基础性的一步。这就是方向。When same-sex marriage was passed in the US, we put an end to a discriminatory law. North.

当同性婚姻在美国获得批准的时候，我们为歧视性法律画上了句号。这就是方向。When millions of men and boys, and prime ministers, and deputy directors of the UN…sorry, the President of the General Assembly, that's what happens when I go without script, when men in this room and around the world – the ones we cannot see, the ones who support us in ways we cannot know but we feel – when they answered Emma Watson's call to be HeForShe, the world grew. North.

当数以百万计的男人和男孩、首相、联合国大会主席、今天在座的各位及世界各地的男性——虽然我们看不到他们，虽然他们在以未知的方式支持着我们，但我们都能感受到那种

支持，当他们响应艾玛·沃森HeForShe的号召时，这世界就进步了。这就是方向。

We must ask ourselves, how will we be more tomorrow than we are today?

我们必须要扪心自问，我们要怎样做才能让明天比今天更好？

The whole world grows when people like you and me take a stand, because we know that beyond the idea of how women and men are different, there is a deeper truth that love is love, and parents are parents.

当像你我这样的人站出来发声，这世界就进步了。因为我们深知，在超越男女性别差异的观念之后，有一个更深层的真理：爱就是爱，父母就是父母。

Thank you.

谢谢。