公众人物毕业演讲第4期:雪莉桑德伯格哈佛大学2014毕业典礼演讲(4)

公众人物毕业英语演讲(Mp3+中英字幕)第3期:雪莉桑德伯格哈佛大学2014毕业典礼演讲when a staff member informed me very firmly

that the ladies' room was over there

and I should be sure not to go up stairs

because women are never allowed in this building

I didn't realize I was in an all-male club until that minute

I spent the rest of the night wondering what I was doing there

wondering what everyone else was doing there

wondering if any of my friends in San Francisco would invite me to

a party at a club that didn't allow Blacks or Jews or Asians or gays

Being invited to give a business speech at this club

hit me even more egregious

because you couldn't claim that it was only social business that was done there

My first thought was, "Really?"

Really

A year after "Lean In"

this dude thought it was a good idea

to invite me to give a speech to his literal all-boys club

And he wasn't alone

there is an entire committee of well respected businessman

who joined him in issuing this kind invitation

To paraphrase Groucho Marx

and don't worry, I won't try to do the voice

I don't want to speak in any club that won't have me as a member

So I said no

and I did it in a way I probably wouldn't have even 5 years before

I wrote a long and passionate email

arguing that they should change their policies

They thanked me for my prompt response and wrote that

perhaps things will eventually change

Our expectations are too low

Eventually needs to become immediately

We need to see the truth and speak the truth

We tolerate discrimination and we pretend that opportunity is equal

Yes we elected an African-American president

but racism is pervasive still

Yes, there are women who run Fortune 500 companies

5 percent to be precise

but our road there is still paved with words like pussy and bossy

while our male peers are leaders and results focused

African-American women have to prove that they're not angry

Latinos risk being branded fiery hot head

A group of Asian-American women and men in Facebook

wore pins one day that said I may or may not be good enough

Yes, Harvard has a woman president

and in two years, the United States may have a woman president