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Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.
然而，我們卻放低音量，以為奮斗已經(jīng)結(jié)束了，結(jié)果卻因為這樣的沉默而受傷。
Now I proudly call myself a feminist.
現(xiàn)在，我會很自豪地宣稱自己是女權(quán)主義者。
If Tip O'Neill were alive today, I might even tell him that I'm a pom-pom girl for feminism.
如果蒂姆·奧尼爾還在世，我甚至?xí)嬖V他我是啦啦隊女孩，但是我在為女權(quán)主義吶喊。
I hope more women, and men, will join me in accepting this distinguished label.
我希望更多的女性、男性和我一起接受這個閃亮的標簽。
Currently, only 24 percent of women in the United States say that they consider themselves feminists.
美國目前只有24%的女性會把自己看作是女權(quán)主義者，
Yet when offered a more specific definition of feminism,
然而，當女權(quán)主義者的定義更為確切時：
"A feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes",
“女權(quán)主義者指主張社會、政治、經(jīng)濟、性別平等的人”，
the percentage of women who agree rises to 65 percent.
這個比例將會上升到65%。
That's a big move in the right direction.
這是往正確方向邁出的一大步。
Semantics can be important, but I don't think progress turns on our willingness to apply a label to ourselves.
語言上的表述很重要，但我并不認為進步就等于我們樂意給自己貼標簽，
I do think progress turns on our willingness to speak up about the impact gender has on us.
而是我們敢于去提起并討論性別問題對女性的影響。
We can no longer pretend that biases do not exist, nor can we talk around them.
我們不再假裝性別偏見不存在，或是避開不談。
And as Harvard Business School has demonstrated,
正如哈佛商學(xué)院的研究實踐所證明的，
the result of creating a more equal environment will not just be better performance for our organizations,
創(chuàng)造一個更平等的環(huán)境不僅能讓各種組織和機構(gòu)更好地運行，
but quite likely greater happiness for all.
也會為所有人帶來更大的幸福。
