--- title: Emma Watson: This is What’s Next for Gender Equality description: "It just takes someone calling it out" canonical: https://time.com/4250991/emma-watson-he-for-she-arts-week/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-08T17:39:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:47.754Z og:title: Emma Watson on the Simple Way to Fight Gender Inequality og:description: "It just takes someone calling it out" og:url: https://time.com/4250991/emma-watson-he-for-she-arts-week/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf9d07e48980f19/69888a1ea988caab176b6e31/emma-watson1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Emma Watson And Chirlane McCray Light The Empire State Building In HeForShe Magenta For International Women's Day og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emma Watson on the Simple Way to Fight Gender Inequality twitter:description: "It just takes someone calling it out" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf9d07e48980f19/69888a1ea988caab176b6e31/emma-watson1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Emma Watson on the Simple Way to Fight Gender Inequality > Sponsored content. 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Emma Watson speaks during HeForShe Magenta For International Women's Day at The Empire State Building, in New York City, on March 8, 2016. Astrid Stawiarz—Getty Images by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Mar 8, 2016 5:39 PM UTC [Emma Watson](http://time.com/tag/emma-watson/) kicked off HeForShe’s inaugural [Arts Week](http://www.heforsheartsweek.org/) in New York City Tuesday on [International Women’s Day](http://time.com/4250718/how-the-world-celebrated-international-womens-day/) with a discussion about challenging gender norms. [Chirlane McCray](http://time.com/4183481/chirlane-mccray-new-york-values/), the First Lady of New York and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UN Women, introduced the _Harry Potter_ star alongside actor and director Forest Whitaker, who runs the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative. “I think about the performing arts and how we perceive masculinity and have rigid definitions and ideas of a leading man and what a leading man can or can’t do or how he should or shouldn’t act,” Watson said. “Challenging these perceptions make the roles that each of us get to play more complex, more real, more authentic, they make our jobs more interesting and truthful.” In Watson’s eyes, being an active bystander can help mitigate the difference between recognizing the problem and making a tangible change. “Empowering people to know and think that it’s their role when they see something that isn’t right to say something about it, that’s how to be an active bystander,” she said. “Most men and women can name a moment in their lives when they were a witness to a man or a woman being treated unfairly because of gender and it just takes someone calling it out.” Watson, who delivered a [much-praised speech](http://time.com/3415901/emma-watson-womens-rights-u-n/) on gender equality at the U.N. in 2014, recently said she is taking a [year off](http://time.com/4230441/emma-watson-to-take-break-from-acting-to-focus-on-feminism/) from acting to focus on gender studies and her [feminist book club](http://time.com/4172664/join-emma-watsons-feminist-book-club/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4250991/emma-watson-he-for-she-arts-week/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4250991/emma-watson-he-for-she-arts-week/"},"headline":"Emma Watson on the Simple Way to Fight Gender Inequality","datePublished":"2016-03-08T17:39:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:47.754Z","description":"\"It just takes someone calling it out\"","url":"https://time.com/4250991/emma-watson-he-for-she-arts-week/","keywords":["Living","Newsfeed","feminism"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf9d07e48980f19/69888a1ea988caab176b6e31/emma-watson1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8cf9d07e48980f19/69888a1ea988caab176b6e31/emma-watson1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Emma Watson And Chirlane McCray Light The Empire State Building In HeForShe Magenta For International Women's Day","caption":"Emma Watson And Chirlane McCray Light The Empire State Building In HeForShe Magenta For International Women's Day","creditText":"Astrid Stawiarz—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4250991/emma-watson-he-for-she-arts-week/","name":"Emma Watson on the Simple Way to Fight Gender Inequality"}}]}] ```