“Emma Watson has definitely left Hermione Granger back with Harry Potter and Hogwarts, her rousing speech to the UN about her feminism also mentioned that men need equality too, not just women. The 24 year-old actress spoke to the United Nations at the HeforShe campaign at the New York UN Headquarters giving an in depth and passionate speech about what it means to be female not just in England but anywhere in the world.
Watson referred to the 1997 Hillary Clinton Beijing speech on women’s rights and pointed out that “sadly” nothing has really changed since then. No one country, according to the actress, can boast that they have real equality between genders. She also pointed out how the current state of affairs diminished her own father’s importance as a man in raising Emma.
She explained how society did not place the same significance on the man’s role in parenting. Watson also went on to say that men were under a lot of pressure. So much so that the rate of suicide in the U.K. was highest in the age group of between 20 and 40. The actress concluded that she had seen men become insecure and fragile by a preset and distorted sense of what makes a man successful. According to Watson, men do not have gender equality either….” — Liberty Voice, Emma Watson speech to U.N.: men need equality too