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 m

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

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 &quotchick flick&quot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

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 m

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

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 &quotgirl power,&quo

Namaste. Good morning.早上好！I&#39m very happy to be here in India.很高兴今天来到印度。And I&#39ve 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 &quotThe Vagina Monologues,&quot我最近也在认真的反思traveling the world,这段经历的意义essentially meeti

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

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&#39ve been always very respec

We&#39re 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&#39t need a media co

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a lot

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&#39s Bill Easterly&#39s book.比如Bill Easterly的书。T

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&#39t 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，&quotWhy sho

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百分之二十进了这个篮子，alcohol,

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&#39t 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 hear

And that brings me to my first major我写《半边天》的两个信条之一of two tenets of &quotHalf the Sky.&quot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世纪是极权

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-&#3980s, she recorded this conversation在80年代中期,，她记录下了她和一个朋友she&#39d 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&#39s very simple. There&#39s just three questions you should ask:非常简单，只有三个问

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。T

So then, I ask,我想问的是，what&#39s in it for you?你可以为此做些什么？You&#39re 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 of us, all

So I think by now, everyone knows that we can&#39t 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 Counci

And what I want to suggest is that,我想提出的一个想法是having talked to girls, because I just finished a new book called我们，都来跟女孩开展对话。&quotI Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World,&quot我最近写，了一本书，叫《我是一个情感动物：全球女孩秘密故事》I&#39ve been talking to girls for five years,过去五年，我一直在跟女孩对话and one

Compare this to 1939 with &quotThe Wizard of Oz.&quot对比一下1939年的《绿野仙踪》。How does Dorothy win her movie?多萝西是如何取得胜利的？By making friends with everybody她通过跟每个人都成为好朋友and being a leader.变成他们的领袖。That&#39s kind of the world I&#39d rather raise my kids in --我更希望自己孩子可以在这样的环境中——Oz, right? -- and not the world of

You know, my favorite part of being a dad身为父亲最让我开心的，is the movies I get to watch.就是可以看自己喜欢的电影。I love sharing my favorite movies with my kids,我喜欢跟我的孩子分享我的电影，and when my daughter was four,当我的女儿四岁的时候，we got to watch &quotThe Wizard of Oz&quot together.我们一起看了《绿野仙踪》。It totally dominated her imagination f

I&#39m going to make an argument today我今天要提出一个新思想，that may seem a little bit crazy:它听上去有一点儿疯狂：social media and the end of gender.社交传媒和性别消失。Let me connect the dots.让我把这两件事情联系起来。I&#39m going to argue today我今天要讲的是that the social media applications那些我们从了解到喜爱，又从喜爱到痛恨的that we all know and love, or love to

But my story goes beyond this moment of truth of mine.但我的故事并没有就此结束Allow me to give you a briefing让我来简洁地about my story.介绍一下我整个的故事吧It was May, 2011,那是在2011年5月and I was complaining to a work colleague我在跟我的同事抱怨：about the harassments I had to face为什么找个交通工具回家trying to find a ride back home,总会碰到骚扰although

In that hut, we walked in,我们走进那间小草屋and her father and his four wives were sitting there,她的父亲和四个妻子坐在那里and her sisters who had just returned because她的姐妹们也回来了，they had all fled when she had fled,她们也跟她一同离家出走的and her primary mother, who had been beaten还有她的母亲，in standing up for her with the elders.她曾因站在她的

In Kenya, in August,今年8月，在肯尼亚I went to visit one of the V-Day safe houses for girls,我参观了一个专门为女孩开设的V日安全避难所a house we opened seven years ago那是我们7年前设立的with an amazing woman named Agnes Pareyio.跟我一起设立这个避难所的还有一个叫艾格尼丝的妇女Agnes was a woman who was cut when she was a little girl,艾格尼丝在她还很小的时候就被强迫割礼she was fem

This is for her:这是献给她的：I love being a girl.我热爱当女孩。I can feel what you&#39re feeling我可以体会你的情感as you&#39re feeling inside the feeling before.体会你刚才体会到的情感I am an emotional creature.我是一个情感动物Things do not come to me as intellectual theories认识这个世界，我靠的不是知识理论or hard-pressed ideas.或抽象的概念They pulse through my