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Matthew Champion
Jan 23, 2015

Emma Watson has delivered a powerful follow-up to her much-lauded speech on gender equality at the United Nations last September.
In her role as a goodwill ambassador for UN Women, the actress announced a year-long initiative calling for new leadership, especially from universities and companies, to end the "persisting inequalities faced by women and girls globally".
Impact 10x10x10 Initiative is being launched as part of HeForShe, which was launched at the UN General Assembly last year in New York in a bid to get more men involved in helping fight for equality.
It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our work places.
They know that the world is being held back in every way, because they are not. Women share this planet 50/50 and they are under-represented, their potential astonishingly untapped.
- Emma Watson
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