Name: ENGLISH SPEECH - アン・ハサウェイ.有給家族休暇 (ENGLISH SPEECH | ANNE HATHAWAY: Paid Family Leave (English Subtitles))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:12:14.000Z
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When I was a 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

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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 Arrivals

We would then get onto the subway together
and, when we surfaced, he would ask me “Which

I wasn't very good at finding North at the
beginning, but I auditioned fair amount and

so my Dad kept asking “Which way is north?"

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

When I was still a child, my father developed
my sense of direction and now, as an adult,

My father helped give me the confidence to
guide myself through the world.

In late March, last year, 2016, I became a
parent for the first time.

I remember the indescribable—and as I understand
a 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 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

American women are currently entitled to 12
weeks' unpaid leave.

That information landed differently for me
when, one week after my son's birth I could

That information landed different 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, when we were relearning everything
we thought we knew about our family and relationship.

Somehow, we and every American parent were
expected to be “back to normal” in under

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?”

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.

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.

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

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

And we were an incredibly privileged family
— our hardships were the stuff of other

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, in order to liberate women,
we need to liberate men.

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 children.

So why do we continue to undervalue fathers
and overburden mothers?

Paid parental leave is not about taking days
off work; it is about creating 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
training costs, and boosted productivity and

Far from not being able to afford to have
paid parental leave, it seems we can't afford

In fact, a study in Sweden showed that every
month fathers took paternity leave, the mothers'

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 thread that 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?

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

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 parental leave were
in only 66 countries out of 190 UN member

I look forward to beginning with the UN itself
which has not yet achieved parity and who's

paid parental leave policies are currently
up for review.

Let us lead by example in creating a world
in which women and men are not economically

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,

Maternity leave, or any workplace policy based
on gender, can—at this moment in history—only

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

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