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UN Speech on Gender Equality, 2014


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Gender equality is your issue too.
Because to date, I've seen my father's role as a parent being valued less by society despite my needing his presence, as a child, as much as my mother's.
I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a man.
In fact, in the U.K., suicide is the biggest killer of men, between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease.
I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success.
Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.
We don't want to talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that they are.
When they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
If men don't have to be aggressive, women won't be compelled to be submissive.
If men don't need to control, women won't have to be controlled.