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When I was a young person, I began my career as an actress.
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When I was a young person, I began my career as an actress.
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Whenever my mother wasn’t free to drive me into Manhattan for auditions, I would take 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 and Departures sign in Penn Station.
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We would then get onto the subway together and, when we surfaced, he would ask me “Which way is north?" 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?" Over time, I got better at finding it.
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I was struck by that memory yesterday while boarding the plane to come here.
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Not just by how far my life has come since then, but by how meaningful that seemingly small lesson has been.
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When I was still a child, my father developed my sense of direction and now, as an adult, I trust my ability to navigate space.
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My father helped give me the confidence to guide myself through the world.
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In late March, last year, 2016, I became a parent for the first time.
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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.
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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.
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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 maternity leave flashed in my mind.
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American women are currently entitled to 12 weeks’ unpaid leave.
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American men are entitled to nothing.
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That information landed differently for me when, one week after my son’s birth I could barely walk.
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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.
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It landed differently.
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Somehow, we and every American parent were expected to be “back to normal” in under three months.
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Without income.
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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.
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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.
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That’s 25 per cent of American women.
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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.
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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 support for both paths.
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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 limited by how much he had to work.
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And we were an incredibly privileged family — our hardships were the stuff of other family’s dreams.
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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.
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In other words, in order to liberate women, we need to liberate men.
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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.
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These limitations have broad-ranging and significant effects, for them and for children.
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We know this.
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So why do we continue to undervalue fathers and overburden mothers?
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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.
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Companies that have offered paid parental leave for employees have reported improved employee retention, reduced absenteeism and training costs, and boosted productivity and morale.
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Far from not being able to afford to have paid parental leave, it seems we can't afford not to.
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In fact, a study in Sweden showed that every month fathers took paternity leave, the mothers’ income increased by 6.7 per cent.
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That’s 6.7 per cent more economic freedom for the whole family.
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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.
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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?
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How many of you Dads here see your kids enough now?
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We need to help each other if we are going to grow.
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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.
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In 2013, provisions for parental leave were in only 66 countries out of 190 UN member states.
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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.
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All you're going to see a lot of me.
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Let us lead by example in creating a world in which women and men are not economically punished for wanting to be parents.
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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.
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We all benefit from living in a more compassionate time where our needs do not make us weak, they make us fully human.
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Maternity leave, or any workplace policy based on gender, can—at this moment in history—only ever be a gilded cage.
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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.
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We now know it chains men to an emotionally limited path.
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And it cannot, by definition, serve the reality of a world in which there is more than one type of family.
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Because in the modern world, some families have two daddies.
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How exactly does maternity leave serve them?
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Today, on International Women’s Day, I would like to thank all those who went before in creating our current policies—let us honour them and build upon what they started by shifting our language - and therefore our consciousness—away from gender and towards opportunity.
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Let us honor our own parents sacrifice by creating a path for a more fair, farther the reaching truth to define all of our lives, especially the lives our children.
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Because paid parental leave does more than give more time for parents to spend with their kids.
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It changes the story of what children observe, and will from themselves imagine possible.
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I see cause for hope.
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In my own country, the United States—currently the only high-income country in the world without paid maternity let alone parental leave—great work has begun in the states of New York, California, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Washington which are currently implementing paid parental leave programs.
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First Lady Charlene McCray and Mayor Bill de Blasio have granted paid parental leave to over 20,000 government employees in NYC.
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We can do this.
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Bringing about change cannot just be the responsibility of those who need it most; we must have the support of those at the highest levels of power if we are ever to achieve parity.
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That is why it is such an honor to recognize and congratulate pioneers of paid parental leave like the global company Danone.
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Today I am proud to announce Danone Global CEO, Emmanuel Faber as our inaugural HeForShe Thematic Champion for Paid Parental Leave.
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As part of this announcement, Danone will implement a global 18 weeks gender-neutral paid parental leave policy for the company’s 100,000 employees by the year 2020.
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Monsieur Faber, when Ambassador Emma Watson delivered her now iconic HeForShe speech and stated that if we live in a world where men occupy a majority of positions of power, we need men to believe in the necessity of change, I believe she was speaking about visionaries like you.
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Merci. Imagine what the world could look like one generation from now if a policy like Danone's becomes the new standard.
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If 100,000 people become 100 million.
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A billion. More.
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Every generation must find their north.
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When women around the world demanded the right to vote, we took a fundamental step toward equality.
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North. When the same sex marriage was passed in the US, we put an end to a discriminatory law.
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North. When millions of men and boys when millions of men and boys and prime ministers and deputy directors of the UN, sorry, the president of the General Assembly.
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That's what happens when I go out of the script.
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When men like the men in this room and around the world.
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The ones we cannot see.
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The ones who support us in ways we cannot know but we feel.
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When they answered Emma Watson’s call to be HeForShe, the world grew.
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North. We must ask ourselves, how will we be more tomorrow than we are today?
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The whole world grows when people like you and me take a stand because we know that beyond the idea of how women and men are different, there is a deeper truth that love is love, and parents are parents.
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Thank you.
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Perché praticare parlando con questo video?

Questo video di Anne Hathaway parla di un tema molto attuale e significativo: il congedo parentale retribuito. Imparare l'inglese con youtube attraverso discorsi che affrontano questioni sociali permette di entrare in contatto con un linguaggio autentico e con situazioni comunicative reali. Praticare le abilità orali aiuta a costruire la fiducia necessaria per affrontare conversazioni complesse. Ascoltando la Hathaway, non solo si apprendono nuovi vocaboli e strutture, ma si acquisisce anche una comprensione più profonda del modo in cui le emozioni e le esperienze personali influenzano il discorso pubblico. Questa è un’ottima opportunità per allenare l'orecchio e la pronuncia nella lingua inglese.

Grammatica ed espressioni nel contesto

Nel suo intervento, Anne Hathaway utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali importanti che possono essere utili per chi desidera migliorare la propria padronanza della lingua. Ecco alcune espressioni chiave:

  • “I remember” – Questo modo di esprimere i ricordi è utile per condividere esperienze personali e costruire una narrazione.
  • “I was struck by” – Questa espressione indica un forte impatto emotivo ed è ottima per enfatizzare l'importanza di una determinata esperienza.
  • “expected to be ‘back to normal’” – Questo esempio mostra come si possano esprimere aspettative sociali, utilizzando il passato per riflessioni sulle pressioni contemporanee.
  • “it landed differently” – Quest'espressione colloquiale è ideale per descrivere una reazione inaspettata a una situazione, utile per approfondire il discorso in modo più personale.

Praticare l'uso di queste strutture con il metodo shadowing in inglese può davvero aiutare a interiorizzare le forme e a migliorare la propria fluidità.

Trappole comuni nella pronuncia

Quando si ascolta il discorso di Hathaway, ci sono alcune parole e suoni che meritano particolare attenzione. Ecco alcuni suggerimenti per migliorare la pronuncia inglese:

  • “Equally disturbing” – Fai attenzione alla pronuncia della 'd' finale, che spesso viene trascurata.
  • “Maternity leave” – La 't' in 'maternity' dovrebbe essere ben articolata per evitare che la parola risulti poco chiara.
  • “Economic freedom” – Questi due termini contengono suoni nasali che possono risultare complicati per chi non è madrelingua, consigliando di ripeterli lentamente e poi più velocemente.

Imparare a pronunciare queste frasi correttamente non solo migliorerà le tue abilità linguistiche, ma ti farà sentire più a tuo agio durante le conversazioni. Usare la tecnica di shadow speaking può essere particolarmente utile in questo contesto.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

Come praticare efficacemente su ShadowingEnglish

  1. Scegli il tuo video: Scegli un video di YouTube con un discorso chiaro e naturale in inglese. TED Talks, BBC News, scene di film, podcast o risposte campione IELTS funzionano benissimo. Incolla l'URL nella barra di ricerca. Inizia con video più brevi (meno di 5 minuti) e contenuti che trovi realmente interessanti — la motivazione è importante.
  2. Ascolta prima, comprendi il contesto: Al primo ascolto, mantieni la velocità a 1x e ascolta solo. Non cercare ancora di ripetere. Concentrati sulla comprensione del significato, sull'acquisizione di nuovo vocabolario e sull'osservazione di come il parlante enfatizza le parole, collega i suoni e fa le pause.
  3. Imposta la modalità Shadowing:
    • Modalità Attesa: Scegli +3s o +5s — dopo che ogni frase è stata riprodotta, il video si mette automaticamente in pausa, così hai tempo per ripetere ad alta voce. Scegli Manuale se vuoi avere il pieno controllo e premi Avanti tu stesso dopo ogni ripetizione.
    • Sincronizzazione Sub: I sottotitoli di YouTube a volte appaiono leggermente in anticipo o in ritardo rispetto all'audio. Usa ±100ms per allinearli perfettamente e poter seguire accuratamente.
  4. Ombreggia ad alta voce (la pratica centrale): Qui è dove si svolge il vero lavoro. Non appena viene riprodotta una frase — o durante la pausa — ripetila ad alta voce, in modo chiaro e sicuro. Non limitarti a pronunciare le parole: rispecchia il ritmo, l'accento, il tono e il discorso connesso del parlante. Mira a sembrare un'ombra del parlante, non solo una recitazione parola per parola. Usa la funzione Ripeti per allenare la stessa frase più volte fino a quando non ti sembra naturale.
  5. Aumenta la sfida: Una volta che un passaggio si sente confortevole, spingi i tuoi limiti. Aumenta la velocità a <code>1.25x</code> o persino <code>1.5x</code> per allenare riflessi linguistici ad alta velocità. Oppure imposta la Modalità Attesa su <code>Off</code> per uno shadowing continuo — la modalità più avanzata e gratificante. Una pratica costante giornaliera di 15–30 minuti produrrà risultati evidenti in poche settimane.

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