ANN HATHAWAY’S SPEECH AT THE UNITED NATIONS ON

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Watch the video as many times as you need and answer the following
questions:
1. Where did Ann Hathaway live when she was a child?
2. Who met her at the station in Manhattan when she had an audition?
3. What question did he ask her when they left the subway?
4. What did he teach her?
5. What happened to her in late March last year?
6. For how long can American women leave work when they have a baby
nowadays?
7. Do they get paid during this period?
8. What about men in the same situation?
9. After how long do 25% of American women go back to work after givig birth?
10. Why?
11. How do companies punish those women who choose to take full maternity
leave?
12. Ann’s mother had to renounce to her career to raise her children. At which
cost?
13. What do we have to do to liberate women?
14. What’s the effect of the stereotype that girls and women lood after the
home and the family?
15. What is paid parental leave about?
16. Mention 3 positive effects that companies report when they introduce paid
parental leave:
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17. How many UN countries were providing paid parental leave in 2013?
18. Does the UN, as an institution, provide parental leave?
19. Do you need to have children or want them to feel the benefits of paid
parental leave?
20. Why does Ann Hathaway define maternity leave as a ‘guilded cage’?
21. In which way is the US unique among the rich countries?
22. Which states have started to implement parental leave programmes?
23. How many weeks of paid leave has Danone introduced?
24. Are both men and women entitled to them?
25. When will this policy be fully implemented?
26. How many employees will benefit from this new policy?
27. What steps towards equality does Ann Hathaway connect with the concept
of North?
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