Emma Watson on gender equality

1. What is feminism?
2. What is gender equality?
3. Is it good for a girl to be bossy? Is it good for a girl to be muscly?

Match the words to their definitions

1. appoint sb (somebody) c a. something that you accept as true without question or
proof 2
2. assumptions a b. stop doing something you were doing before you
have completely finished 4
3. gender g c. to choose someone officially for a job 1
4. drop out b d. to do an activity for others to watch 5
5. put on a play d e. to see someone or something in sexual terms 6
6. to be sexualized f. the right of different groups of people to have a
e
similar social position and receive the same
(to sexualize)
treatment 7
7. equality f g. the physical and social condition of being male or
female 3

Listen to a part of Emma Watson's speech that she delivered as a UN Women Goodwill
Ambassador on 20th September 2014 and answer the questions.

1. How old was Emma when she started questioning gender-based assumptions?
Why did she do it?
2. How old was Emma when the press started to sexualize her?
3. How old was Emma when her female friends started dropping out of their sports?
Why did they do it?
4. How old was Emma when her male friends were unable to express their feelings?
5. Is feminism considered to be a positive or a negative word according to Emma?
6. Has any country in the world achieved gender equality?

Match the beginning of sentences to their endings.

1. I have realized that fighting for a. make decisions about my own body.
women’s rights has too often become 5
synonymous with c
2. I think it is right that women be b. the same respect as men
4
involved on my behalf e

3. But sadly I can say that there is no c. man-hating 1

one country in the world where all
women can expect to d
4. I think it is right that socially I ambafforded d. receive these rights 3
5. I think it is right that I should be able to e. in the policies and decision-making of
a my country 2