In 1976, Iceland passed a law guaranteeing equal rights of men and women.

1976年，冰岛通过了一项保障男女平等权利的法律。

A World Bank survey of 187 economies, published last month, found that women had, on average, three-quarters of the legal and employment rights of men.

世界银行对187个经济体做了一项调查并于上个月出版，该调查发现女性的平均法定权力和就业权只有男性的3/4.

Today we're going to talk about a very important, what we might call historic court case on the rights of men and women in the United States.

今天我们要谈论一个非常重要的，我们可以称之为历史性的关于美国男女权利的法庭案件。

And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

现在的世界已大不相同了。人类的巨手掌握着既能消灭人间的各种贫困，又能毁灭人间的各种生活的力量。但我们的先辈为之奋斗的那些革命信念，在世界各地仍然有着争论。这个信念就是：人的权利并非来自国家的慷慨给与，而是来自上帝恩赐。