Hi, everybody.大家好！For millions of Americans, this time of year holds great meaning.对数百万美国人民而言，每年的这个时候都有着特殊的意义。Earlier this week, we hosted a Passover Seder at the White House, and joined Jewish families around the world in their retellings of the story of the Exodus and the victory of faith over opp

Hi, everybody.大家好。Earlier this week was Equal Pay Day.本周二是同酬日。It marks the extra time the average woman has to work into a new year to earn what a man earned the year before.数据显示，平均而言，在新的一年里，女性要挣与男性过去一年里同样的工资还要搭上更多的工作时间。You see, the average woman who works full-time in America earns less than a man-

And what&#39s even more disturbing is what&#39s happening with younger boys.更加令人不安的是发生在年轻的男孩子身上的事情。There&#39s been about a decade of research about what people are calling the &quotboy crisis.&quot这有一个进行了大约十年的调查，关于人们所谓的男生危机是什么。Now the boy crisis is this idea that very young boys, for whatever reason

So they spread out all the census data,他们分析了所有的人口统计数据，and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker,他们发现，他的描述对我而言是一个震惊，which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities,在一九九七年，两千个社区中，women, young women, were making more money than young men.女性，年轻女性比年轻男性挣得更多。So here you have a generation of

Now you laugh, but that quote has kind of a sting to it, right?你觉得好笑，但是那句话有些刺痛，对吧。And I think the reason it has a sting我认为它有刺的原因is because thousands of years of history don&#39t reverse themselves without a lot of pain,是因为数千年的历史是不会颠覆，如果没有疼痛的话。and that&#39s why I talk about us all going through this

And the other reason it&#39s kind of urgent is because it&#39s not just happening in the U.S.这件事情比较紧急的另一个原因是因为它不仅仅发生在美国。It&#39s happening all over the world.它发生在整个世界。In India, poor women are learning English faster than their male counterparts在印度，贫穷的女人们学习英语比男同伴们更快in order to staff the new call cente

And I remembered back to about 10 years ago我还记得大约十年前when I read a book by Susan Faludi called &quotStiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man&quot,当我在读苏珊·法露迪的“失信：美国男人的背叛”这本书in which she described how hard the recession had hit men,书中她描述了经济衰退是如何剧烈地影响男人们。and I started to think about whether it had gott

We are now going through an amazing and unprecedented moment我们现在正在经历着一个惊人的、史无前例的时刻where the power dynamics between men and women are shifting very rapidly,男人和女人之间的力量正在迅速地转换着。and in many of the places where it counts the most, women are, in fact, taking control of everything.并且在很多重要的地方，女性实际上控制着一切。In

We have the charmless misanthrope.我们有毫无魅力愤世嫉俗者。Then we have our Bud Light guy who&#39s the happy couch potato.有终日赖在沙发上边看电视边喝百威淡啤的男子。And then here&#39s a shocker: even America&#39s most sexiest man alive,这里有一个震惊：甚至于美国最性感的男性，the sexiest man alive gets romantically played these days in a movie.存活的最性感的男

So what&#39s that about?到底怎么回事？It looks like women got some power boost on a video game,看起来好像女人像是电子游戏里一样得到很多的力量。or like they snuck in some secret serum into their birth-control pills that lets them shoot up high.或者在她们的避孕药丸中偷偷地得到了种神奇的浆液，从而使得她们崛起。But of course, it&#39s not about that.当然不是那样。What it&#3

If you think about this, if you just open your eyes to this possibility如果你想到这些，如果你向这些可能性睁开你的眼睛and start to connect the dots, you can see the evidence everywhere.并且开始连接这些点，你可以看见证据无所不在。You can see it in college graduation patterns, in job projections, in our marriage statistics,你可以看见它体现在大学的毕业形势中，在工作规划

If you read management books now, a leader is somebody who can foster creativity,如果你现在读管理类的书，领导是那种可以激发创造力，who can get his -- get the employees -- see, I still say &quothis&quot --可以令他的--员工们--看吧，我仍然说“他的”--who can get the employees to talk to each other,让员工们相互交谈，who can basically build teams and get t

That&#39s how good Marvel was at selling superheroes.这体现了漫威是出色的英雄卖家。Last year, they released a film called &quotGuardians of the Galaxy.&quot去年，他们发售了一部名叫《银河守护者》的影片。It&#39s a film that absolutely should not work.这是一部绝不可能火的影片，Nobody knew who they were except for comic book nerds like me.因为除了像我这样的漫画书呆子

Even though she has never seen &quotGame of Thrones,&quot primarily because we are not the worst parents who ever lived.即使她未曾看过《权利的游戏》，主要是因为我们并不是最糟的父母。But she knows there&#39s someone called the Mother of Dragons, and she calls herself that and she loves it.但她知道有人叫做龙母，她也自称龙母并怡然自得。She&#39s a huge com

When a movement includes in its discourse language around gender equality,当一个运动在其议题中包含性别平等时it increases dramatically the chances it will adopt nonviolence, and thus, the likelihood it will succeed.它采取非暴力的几率戏剧性增长，如此一来，它成功的可能性也相应增长The research squared up with my own documentation of political organizi

Since 1937, Disney has made most of its money selling princesses to girls.从1937年开始，迪士尼就通过向女孩儿们出售公主玩偶赚钱。It&#39s made a huge chunk of its money.他们为此大赚了一笔。Unless, of course, the princess your daughter is interested in, as my daughter is, is this one.当然，除非你的女儿和我的女儿一样，喜欢这样的角色。See, in 2012, Disney purchas

The separation barrier was changed completely to the internationally recognized green line,隔离墙被完全改道到国际认可的绿线内and the women of Budrus came to be known across the West Bank for their indomitable energy. Thank you.Budrus的女人们也因她们不屈不挠的活力名声响彻西岸地区。谢谢I want to pause for a second, which you helped me do,我想暂停片

It&#39s, in short, how we learn what we know about other people and about the world.简而言之，那就是我们如何了解到，我们对于其他人的认知，以及我们对于全世界的认知。But we live in a 100-percent media-saturated society.但是我们生活在一个媒体无处不在的社会中。What that means is that every single aspect of your human existence也就是说，人类在基本生理机能之外的outside of your bas

This period, though, was also marked by widespread nonviolent organizing然而，这个时期也同样充斥着非暴力的组织形式in the forms of strikes, sit-ins and the creation of parallel institutions.罢工、静坐及平行组织的其他活动During the First Intifada, whole sectors of the Palestinian civilian population mobilized,在大起义期间，所有的巴基斯坦民族都动员起来cuttin

If we do not lift up the women who played critical roles in these struggles,如果我们不表彰那些在斗争中起到关键作用的女人们we fail to offer up role models to future generations.我们就不能为后代树立榜样Without role models, it becomes harder for women to take up their rightful space in public life.没有榜样，在公共生活中，女人要想取得自己合乎权利的空间会更加困难And as

Despite their extraordinary achievements, none of these women have made it into our narrative of the First Intifada.尽管有这些非凡的成就，没有一个女人进入了我们关于大起义的描述中We do this in other parts of the globe, too.在世界上的其他地方，我们也是如此行事In our history books, for instance, and in our collective consciousness,比如在我们的历史教科书和集体意识中me

I spend most of my time thinking about little girls,我生活中的大部分时间都在思考关于小女孩的事情，which is kind of a weird thing for a grown man in our society to say.这对于当今社会一位成年男性而言未免有些奇怪。But I do. I spend most of my time thinking about little girls,但是我确实花了大量时间在思考小女孩的事，and I think it&#39s primarily because I have one.我想主

Now, I could have taken to Twitter with the hashtag #WheresGamora, like millions of fans did across the world,现在，我可以在Twitter上发＃加美拉去哪儿了，就像世界各地成千上万的粉丝们一样。but the truth was I wasn&#39t even really that surprised,但事实上，我并不对此感到惊讶，because I was there when Disney had released &quotThe Avengers.&quot因为当迪斯尼播出

I&#39m not raising a little boy, like Mike.我没有抚养过像Mike这样的小男孩儿。Mike is a little boy in Florida. He&#39s 11 years old,Mike是弗罗里达州的一名小男孩儿，他今年11岁。and the thing that he loves most in the world is a show called &quotMy Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,&quot他在这个世界上最喜欢的东西，和美国其他成千上万的孩子们一样，like millions of oth

And please buy them. And don&#39t just buy them for your daughters, buy them for your sons.请购买它们吧。不要只买给你们的女儿们，也买给儿子们吧。Because it&#39s important that boys play with and as female superheroes因为男孩们玩儿女版超人玩具，just as my daughter plays with and as male superheroes.就和我女儿玩男版一样意义重大。As a matter of fact, what I

Now to the second potential misunderstanding.至于第二个可能的误解I&#39ve been talking a lot about my experiences in the Middle East, and some of you might be thinking now我一直在谈论我在中东地区的经历，你们有些人可能在想that the solution then is for us to educate Muslim and Arab societies to be more inclusive of their women.问题的解决方案在于

I mean, over the next five years, Disney and Warner Bros. and a bunch of movie studios我的意思是，在未来的五年当中，迪士尼和华纳兄弟公司，还有一群电影工作室are going to release over 30 feature-length films with comic book characters,将会推出超过30部基于漫画形象的全长电影。and of those 30 feature-length films, exactly two of them will have female solo l

These six companies produce nine out of every 10 movies you watch,这六家公司制作了你所接触过的90%的电影，nine out of every 10 television shows, nine out of every 10 songs, nine out of every 10 books.90%的电视节目，90%的歌曲，90%的书籍。So my question to you is, if six companies control 90 percent of American media,所以我要问你们的是，如果六家公司

We have to stop.我们必须停止。And when I was putting this together, people said to me,当我这么说的时候，一些人回复我说：&quotWell, that&#39s never going to happen.&quot And I said, &quotOh really?&quot“好吧，但那绝不可能发生。”然后我说：“是吗？”Because just this year, Target announced that they were going to stop gendering their toy aisles.因为

Twelve years ago, I picked up a camera for the first time to film the olive harvest in a Palestinian village in the West Bank.十二年前，我第一次拿起相机，去拍摄一个位于约旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦村庄的橄榄收割活动I thought I was there to make a single documentary and would then move on to some other part of the world.我本打算去那里拍一个纪录片，然后就会离开去其他地方But