IMF总裁拉加德 | 天下女人国际论坛视频讲话

Hello everyone. And many thanks to the invitation Lan to speak at your forum, Her Village International Forum. I would love to be with you and I can't. So let me just take just a few minutes of your time to make a few points.

大家好！非常感谢杨澜邀请我在天下女人国际论坛致辞。我很想亲自到场，然而实在难以实现。所以请允许我占用各位几分钟时间谈谈我的几个观点。

One is our research at the IMF has cleared demonstrated that gender equality is critically important. It is not just a moral obligation, but it's an economic game changer. We know that from the research we have conducted at the IMF and from studies outside the IMF that women if they are allowed to participate in the labour force to the same extends as men, then they can be the economic game changer.

一个是我们在IMF的研究清楚的显示性别平等尤其重要。性别平等不仅仅是道德上的责任，而是经济博弈的改变者。从IMF的研究以及外部其他研究来看，如果我们允许女人像男人一样参加工作，她们会成为经济博弈的改变者。

Now look at in the past few years, we have been able to innovate with support of the membership. Trying to analyse the contribution of women; trying to invent along the way the polices that would actually support women's contribution to the economy, to the larbour force, to more inclusive finance.

看看过去几年的我们已经从成员国获得的创新支持，分析女性成就，探索更好的政策，真正支持女性，让她们可以为经济，劳动力，以及一个更包容的金融环境出一份力。

I know that on this particular forum the theme is Leading Innovation in a Time of Change. We all remember Marie Curie and her discovery of radioactivity and other physical as well as chemistry findings. We all know by now finally that if it hadn't been for a few women scientists, we might not have brought back from the moon those men who actually traveled there for the first time. We also probably know that some of the most beautifully designed cars are designed by women. So innovation is something that is very strong in women's talent.

我知道此次论坛的主题是变革时代的创新力量。我们都记得居里夫人和她发现的反射性元素以及其他物理和化学现象。我们现在也都知道如果当年没有那些女性科学家，那些首次登月的男人们也无法成功地返回地球。我们还知道很多设计，很多最美的汽车都是出自女性之手，所以创新的创造力是女性天赋中很大的一部分。

But there are quite a few obstacles along the way, and I hope you to be focusing on that. One is in addition to just natural creativity, scientific background exposure to the digital world, and the skill that it requires are necessary. To achieve innovation, women must be allowed just like men to fail and fail many times along the way. This is something that is difficult for us. Because we tend to always want to demonstrate that we can succeed that we have done our homework, that we can study as hard as others. But I think we need to accept the fact that failure is definitely part of the process of innovating.

但是我也希望各位注意：创新，除了要求天赋，科学背景，数码知识和技术之外，路上有很多的阻碍。要实现创新，女性还要像男性一样，允许自己失败，失败无数次。有时候这对我们来说很困难，因为我们一直想要证明自己可以成功，证明我们做了工作，可以像其他人一样用功学习。但是我觉得我们需要接受现实，失败是创新过程中的一部分。

So with that, I would like to wish all of you a really good forum. And I hope that by being together, you will feel more empowered, richer more likely to succeed, because you will have allowed yourselves to fail along the way. Best of luck.

这就是我要分享的。希望各位能享受两天的论坛，并希望通过参与论坛，在场的每一位都能够感受到更有力量，丰富阅历，允许自己失败，最终获得成功。祝大家好运！