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在阿拉伯这个男权社会，女性往往被忽视甚至不平等对待。但即便在这种情况下，演讲者还是闯出了自己的一片天地，并和大家分享关于她的成功经验。
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- Faced with a patriarchal society, they have found that by helping each other out, all benefit.
- 面对这个父权社会，她们发现，藉由帮助彼此，所有人都能得到好处。
- In my previous job, I was the most senior woman in the Middle East,
- 在我前一份工作中，我在中东是最资深的女性，
- so one could think that investing in my network of female colleagues couldn't bring many benefits
- 所以能想到投资在我女性同事的人脉并不能带来很大的效益，
- and that I should instead invest my time developing my relationships with male seniors and peers.
- 而我应该要把时间投资在发展我跟男性前辈与同侪的关系。
- Yet two of my biggest breaks came through the support of other women.
- 尽管我最大的两个突破来自其他女人的帮助。
- It was the head of marketing who initially suggested I be considered as a young global leader to the World Economic Forum.
- 那是来自于一位营销领导，她最初建议我成为一个世界经济论坛年轻的全球领导人。
- She was familiar with my media engagements and my publications,
- 她很熟悉我的媒体参与和我发表的东西，
- and when she was asked to voice her opinion, she highlighted my name.
- 而当她被要求表达意见时，她强调了我的名字。
- It was a young consultant, a Saudi lady and friend,
- 这是一位年轻的顾问，一位沙乌地女士，是我的朋友，
- who helped me sell my first project in Saudi Arabia,
- 她帮我在沙特阿拉伯卖出了我第一个项目，
- a market I was finding hard to gain traction in as a woman.
- 作为一个女人，我发现很难在这市场得到吸引力。
- She introduced me to a client, and that introduction led to the first of very many projects for me in Saudi.
- 她向我介绍一名客户，而这场介绍开始了我在沙乌地众多的项目的第一道曙光。
- Today, I have two senior women on my team,
- 如今，在我的团队内有两个资深的女性，
- and I see making them successful as key to my own success.
- 而我看见，让她们成功，就是开启我成功之路的钥匙。
- Women continue to advance in the world, not fast enough, but we're moving.
- 女性持续在世界上进步，还不算快，但我们正在努力。
- The Arab world, too, is making progress, despite many recent setbacks.
- 阿拉伯世界也是如此，正在有所进展，尽管现在有很多障碍。
- Just this year, the UAE appointed five new female ministers to its cabinet, for a total of eight female ministers.
- 就在今年，阿拉伯联合酋长国指派五名新的女部长进入内阁，总计有8位女部长。
- That's nearly 28 percent of the cabinet, and more than many developed countries can claim.
- 那相当于内阁人数的28%，可以说比许多已发达国家还多。
- This is today my daughter Alia's favorite picture.
- 这是我女儿Alia现在最爱的图片。
- This is the result, no doubt, of great leadership,
- 不用怀疑，这是在伟大的领导之下的结果。
- but it is also the result of strong Arab women not giving up and continuously pushing the boundaries.
- 但这也是杰出的阿拉伯女性的成就， 不放弃并且不断的推动界线。
- It is the result of Arab women deciding every day like me
- 这是阿拉伯女性每天像我一样生活的结果，
- to convert shit into fuel, to work their life, to keep work out of their life, and to join forces and not compete.
- 我们把负面能量转换成动力，去安排他们的生活，在生活外保持发展，然后团结合作不对抗彼此。
- As I look to the future, my hopes for my daughter when she stands on this stage some 20, 30 years from now
- 当我看向未来，我希望我的女儿从现在开始20、30年后，在那时，
- are that she be as proud to call herself her mother's daughter as her father's daughter.
- 她能以自己是母亲的女儿为傲，就跟是她父亲的女儿一样骄傲。
- My hopes for my son are that by then, the expression "her mother's son" or "mama's boy"
- 我希望我的儿子在那时也是一样，描述自己是“母亲的儿子”或是“妈妈的男孩”，
- would have taken on a completely different meaning. Thank you.
- 将会带给我们完全不一样的意义。谢谢。
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