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what would your ideal world be like a
world without hunger and poverty a world
where all your dreams come true and you
can have anything you ever wish for I’m
sure most of you here have ideals and so
do I my ideal world is where all people
are treated equally irrespective of
their gender religion race age and so on
which brings us to the topic I am going
to talk about today gender equality so
first things first what is gender gender
means the facts of being male or female
especially when considered with
reference to social and cultural
differences not differences and biology
then how about gender equality gender
equality means the state of having the
same right status and opportunities as
others regardless of one’s gender the
United Nations see it as a fundamental
human right and also a necessary
foundation for a peaceful prosperous and
sustainable world this is what I wish
for unfortunately it is still not a
reality today now you might be thinking
why is gender equality so important why
do we need to achieve it
all over the world people are suffering
because of gender inequalities in some
parts of the world girls still face
barriers to receive both primary and
secondary education men and boys suffer
from gender stereotypes studies have
shown that gender equality has positive
effects in Kenya for example when woman
received the same education as men and
had authority over farm work the amount
of crops increased by 22% and also the
economic losses of girls not receiving
secondary education in 65 countries are
estimated to be 10 trillion Japanese yen
each year gender equality benefits not
only sustainable economies but also
societies and humanity at large my
interest in gender equality started
because of emma watson who played my
favorite character in my favorite book
and movie series Harry Potter now are
there any Harry Potter fans in the
audience could you raise your hand if
you like Harry Potter thank you and I
hope I can chat about Harry Potter with
you
at the after party well so one day I was
reading a newspaper and I found an
article about Emma she had given a
speech as a UN woman goodwill ambassador
at the United Nations headquarters in
September 2014 she had talks about
gender equality and he for she a human
woman solidarity movement for gender
equality
gender equality is your issue too I
invite you to step forward and to ask
yourself if not me who if not now when
these words in Emma’s speech moved me
and encouraged me to start thinking and
taking action on gender equality this
March I had the chance to visit the UN
Women headquarters in New York and
talked to people working there what they
emphasize the most was the fact that
gender equality is not discussed much an
action to promote equality is still
lacking they also said that it was very
important for us and especially for
young people to learn know and share
accurate information these are the main
reasons I wanted to talk to you all at
TEDx in ago you and I would like to
share with you what I think we can do to
achieve gender equality to achieve
gender equality I think we can start
with familiar things to become more
aware of the issues in addition it’s
important to share what you think about
it with others I decided to do my own
investigation on gender equality to
deepen my understanding and to think of
ways to achieve it at an individual and
community level for my study on gender
equality first I had to research
people’s awareness of it and what they
thought about it so I asked my family
friends and neighbors to answer a survey
about
gender equality I asked them the degree
to which they agreed with these three
statements it is desirable for men to
work and woman to do the household
chores there are things that I can do
for a gender equality and there are
times when I think about gender equality
for the first statement it is desirable
for men to work and women to do the
household chores the results who are
like this as shown in the graph I
divided the respondents into three age
groups ten to twenty nine thirty to
forty nine and fifty and older and the
orange shows agree and the blue shows
disagree as you can see in this graph
the percentage of men answering agree
was very small however the majority of
women aged 10 to 29 answered agree I
wondered if this was a result of many
girls seeing their mothers not working
and doing housework I think this is one
way in which they get affected by the
historical and cultural stereotypes I
sometimes feel this at school one boy in
my class was good at home economics a
subject in which we learned things such
as cooking and sewing his fellow
students calls him mother just because
he was good at it and no one student
realized that he or she was constrained
by stereotypes
next for the statement there are things
that I can do for gender equality
the results were like this almost half
of men of all ages answer degree however
more than half of young woman answered
disagree
this shows that some and especially
young people are not sure they can do
anything for gender equality but on the
other hand for the last statement there
are times when I think about gender
equality more than half of men of all
ages and also woman in most age groups
answer to green I think it is safe to
say that although people do think about
gender equality they tend to think there
is little they can contribute based on
my results I came up with a I thought of
strategy to achieve gender equality with
these three following aims to raise
awareness to change by said views and to
overcome stereotypes and to share the
fact that there are things everyone can
do for gender equality based on my
results I designed a program to meet
these three aims because I focused on
the household roles of men and woman in
my research I planned a role exchange
program for families I asked people who
took my survey to kindly take part in my
program in my program I asked people to
first exchange one of their household
rules with another member of their
family
and then to answer a questionnaire after
the exchange to see the effects of the
program so for example in a household
with a woman always clean and a man
takes out the trash they swap roles so
that the man cleaned and the woman took
out the trash
I asked the participants if there were
more aware of gender equality than they
were before the program the results were
like this more than half of men of all
ages and also woman of all ages answered
agree although a small effect I am glad
to be able to tell you today that my
program had positive effects towards
gender equality I also received a lot of
feedback from the participants one male
participant said that there were some
places a man would not have noticed
while cleaning and that he planned to
help with the chores again one female
participant said that she felt it was
not always necessary for men’s and
women’s roles to be predetermined
another woman urged for Japanese people
and especially woman to raise their
awareness towards gender equality
because they don’t realize that Japan is
a male-dominated country and that their
human rights are being ignored
so how gender equal is Japan the World
Economic Forum conducts a gender gap
study every year and I would like to
share the rankings with you the first
place in the rankings is Iceland
followed by Phil
at number two Norway and number three
Sweden at number four and Rwanda at
number five guess where Japan is a
hundred 11th out of 144 countries not
even in the top 100 isn’t that shocking
this is very low for a developed country
and it is not at all an exaggeration to
say that Japan is very far behind on
gender equality to add insult to injury
one male participant in my program said
that because he thinks doing the chores
and raising a children are woman’s jobs
he is not willing to do anything
whatsoever of course the result I had
shown you a few minutes ago
do not show what all of society thinks
but I think it is safe to say that my
program has had positive effects so in
the program I ask people to exchange
rules to start with something that is
close to them and the results well you
know the rest but what I’m trying to say
is that although gender equality sounds
unfamiliar and seems a very distant goal
we can start with familiar things to
become more conscious of it as I share
with you today the reason I started
researching about gender equality was
Emma Watson nothing special and because
of that I was not only able to start
thinking about gender equality but also
run a program and share it with you all
today
can achieve gender equality by starting
from things around us gender inequality
is a huge problem that affects the world
but we can start from familiar things we
can make improvements by making small
changes around us these small changes we
make will become a seat for a worldwide
movement so we’ll use that forward with
me thank you for your kind attention
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what would your ideal world be like a
world without hunger and poverty a world
where all your dreams come true and you
can have anything you ever wish for I’m
sure most of you here have ideals and so
do I my ideal world is where all people
are treated equally irrespective of
their gender religion race age and so on
which brings us to the topic I am going
to talk about today gender equality so
first things first what is gender gender
means the facts of being male or female
especially when considered with
reference to social and cultural
differences not differences and biology
then how about gender equality gender
equality means the state of having the
same right status and opportunities as
others regardless of one’s gender the
United Nations see it as a fundamental
human right and also a necessary
foundation for a peaceful prosperous and
sustainable world this is what I wish
for unfortunately it is still not a
reality today now you might be thinking
why is gender equality so important why
do we need to achieve it
all over the world people are suffering
because of gender inequalities in some
parts of the world girls still face
barriers to receive both primary and
secondary education men and boys suffer
from gender stereotypes studies have
shown that gender equality has positive
effects in Kenya for example when woman
received the same education as men and
had authority over farm work the amount
of crops increased by 22% and also the
economic losses of girls not receiving
secondary education in 65 countries are
estimated to be 10 trillion Japanese yen
each year gender equality benefits not
only sustainable economies but also
societies and humanity at large my
interest in gender equality started
because of emma watson who played my
favorite character in my favorite book
and movie series Harry Potter now are
there any Harry Potter fans in the
audience could you raise your hand if
you like Harry Potter thank you and I
hope I can chat about Harry Potter with
you
at the after party well so one day I was
reading a newspaper and I found an
article about Emma she had given a
speech as a UN woman goodwill ambassador
at the United Nations headquarters in
September 2014 she had talks about
gender equality and he for she a human
woman solidarity movement for gender
equality
gender equality is your issue too I
invite you to step forward and to ask
yourself if not me who if not now when
these words in Emma’s speech moved me
and encouraged me to start thinking and
taking action on gender equality this
March I had the chance to visit the UN
Women headquarters in New York and
talked to people working there what they
emphasize the most was the fact that
gender equality is not discussed much an
action to promote equality is still
lacking they also said that it was very
important for us and especially for
young people to learn know and share
accurate information these are the main
reasons I wanted to talk to you all at
TEDx in ago you and I would like to
share with you what I think we can do to
achieve gender equality to achieve
gender equality I think we can start
with familiar things to become more
aware of the issues in addition it’s
important to share what you think about
it with others I decided to do my own
investigation on gender equality to
deepen my understanding and to think of
ways to achieve it at an individual and
community level for my study on gender
equality first I had to research
people’s awareness of it and what they
thought about it so I asked my family
friends and neighbors to answer a survey
about
gender equality I asked them the degree
to which they agreed with these three
statements it is desirable for men to
work and woman to do the household
chores there are things that I can do
for a gender equality and there are
times when I think about gender equality
for the first statement it is desirable
for men to work and women to do the
household chores the results who are
like this as shown in the graph I
divided the respondents into three age
groups ten to twenty nine thirty to
forty nine and fifty and older and the
orange shows agree and the blue shows
disagree as you can see in this graph
the percentage of men answering agree
was very small however the majority of
women aged 10 to 29 answered agree I
wondered if this was a result of many
girls seeing their mothers not working
and doing housework I think this is one
way in which they get affected by the
historical and cultural stereotypes I
sometimes feel this at school one boy in
my class was good at home economics a
subject in which we learned things such
as cooking and sewing his fellow
students calls him mother just because
he was good at it and no one student
realized that he or she was constrained
by stereotypes
next for the statement there are things
that I can do for gender equality
the results were like this almost half
of men of all ages answer degree however
more than half of young woman answered
disagree
this shows that some and especially
young people are not sure they can do
anything for gender equality but on the
other hand for the last statement there
are times when I think about gender
equality more than half of men of all
ages and also woman in most age groups
answer to green I think it is safe to
say that although people do think about
gender equality they tend to think there
is little they can contribute based on
my results I came up with a I thought of
strategy to achieve gender equality with
these three following aims to raise
awareness to change by said views and to
overcome stereotypes and to share the
fact that there are things everyone can
do for gender equality based on my
results I designed a program to meet
these three aims because I focused on
the household roles of men and woman in
my research I planned a role exchange
program for families I asked people who
took my survey to kindly take part in my
program in my program I asked people to
first exchange one of their household
rules with another member of their
family
and then to answer a questionnaire after
the exchange to see the effects of the
program so for example in a household
with a woman always clean and a man
takes out the trash they swap roles so
that the man cleaned and the woman took
out the trash
I asked the participants if there were
more aware of gender equality than they
were before the program the results were
like this more than half of men of all
ages and also woman of all ages answered
agree although a small effect I am glad
to be able to tell you today that my
program had positive effects towards
gender equality I also received a lot of
feedback from the participants one male
participant said that there were some
places a man would not have noticed
while cleaning and that he planned to
help with the chores again one female
participant said that she felt it was
not always necessary for men’s and
women’s roles to be predetermined
another woman urged for Japanese people
and especially woman to raise their
awareness towards gender equality
because they don’t realize that Japan is
a male-dominated country and that their
human rights are being ignored
so how gender equal is Japan the World
Economic Forum conducts a gender gap
study every year and I would like to
share the rankings with you the first
place in the rankings is Iceland
followed by Phil
at number two Norway and number three
Sweden at number four and Rwanda at
number five guess where Japan is a
hundred 11th out of 144 countries not
even in the top 100 isn’t that shocking
this is very low for a developed country
and it is not at all an exaggeration to
say that Japan is very far behind on
gender equality to add insult to injury
one male participant in my program said
that because he thinks doing the chores
and raising a children are woman’s jobs
he is not willing to do anything
whatsoever of course the result I had
shown you a few minutes ago
do not show what all of society thinks
but I think it is safe to say that my
program has had positive effects so in
the program I ask people to exchange
rules to start with something that is
close to them and the results well you
know the rest but what I’m trying to say
is that although gender equality sounds
unfamiliar and seems a very distant goal
we can start with familiar things to
become more conscious of it as I share
with you today the reason I started
researching about gender equality was
Emma Watson nothing special and because
of that I was not only able to start
thinking about gender equality but also
run a program and share it with you all
today
can achieve gender equality by starting
from things around us gender inequality
is a huge problem that affects the world
but we can start from familiar things we
can make improvements by making small
changes around us these small changes we
make will become a seat for a worldwide
movement so we’ll use that forward with
me thank you for your kind attention
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