Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Thursday urged women to “change the world” without looking forward to the help of men, as she addressed an audience of the global, and mostly male, elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The 20-year-old international education campaigner spoke now not long before the arrival in Davos of US President Donald Trump, who reached the White House a year ago in the past despite revelations of beside the point conduct closer to women.
On Saturday across the US, heaps of demonstrators took to the streets in a Women March to mark a year to the day since his inauguration.
The annual Davos convention, which unites the arena's enterprise and political elite, also takes vicinity this 12 months inside the shadow of the feminist #MeToo campaign that shook Hollywood and spread throughout the globe in 2017.
“We won't ask men to exchange the sector, we are going to do it ourselves,” said Yousafzai.
“we are going to arise for ourselves, we are going to boost our voices and we're going to change the arena,” she said.
Yousafzai, who changed into the shot and nearly killed by militants in Pakistan in 2012 for insisting on the proper of ladies to go to high school, has become an international sensation, pleading for the education of girls.
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, she has persevered her campaigning while pursuing her studies at Oxford college.
“Feminism is just a different word for equality ... And no person will object to equality,” she stated.
"it's miles quite simple, it's no longer as complicated as a few people have made it."