New Website for HeForShe

Emma Watson has started a new website for her HeForShe campaign that she introduced in 2014 as the Women’s Ambassador to the United Nations. HeForShe is a campaign calling for and working towards gender equality. It particularly focuses on bringing in men to the campaign, to have men working along side women for the equal empowerment of women.

The initiative was continued with the addition of the IMPACT 10x10x10 movement last year. Now, as a next step, Watson has introduced a new HeForShe website on her Facebook page, along with a short 15 minute interview. The introduction states that Watson and the HeForShe campaign hopes the website will be “the world’s largest crowdsourcing platform for gender equality solutions.” The interview and the post can be seen below.

In the interview Emma talks of the many people wanting to get involved with HeForShe but not sure how to do so. The team hopes that this website will help guide those who want to be apart of the largely grassroots movement, and share and spread ideas and solutions.

One can join the website by clicking “Count Me In.” Even without joining, users have the opportunity to use an interactive “Impact Map” that gives statistics on gender equality issues for individual countries selected. The website also has an “Impact Spotlight” that shares news of how HeForShe and other gender equality movements find success. And of course, the site offers users ways to take action and get involved.

Emma Watson also made a plug for her new feminist book club, Our Shared Shelf, encouraging people to join. Our Shared Shelf can be accessed through Goodreads, here.