Emma Watson is praising others for their work with gender equality.

The actress retweeted Time's list of "10 CEOs and university leaders working for gender equality," but recently the actress was honored for her own work. 

Watson's passionate U.N. speech, as part of the HeForShe movement, made Time's list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World. Watson was introduced and summarized by Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times and an author.

"It's especially refreshing to see men invited to join the fight for gender equality, as Watson pointedly did in launching the U.N. effort last fall, telling the men that it's 'your issue too,'" Abramson said on the Time article.

What Abramson is referring to is Watson's clarifying voice that embraces feminism, but also addresses that it is not a man-hating philosophy, but rather a movement that elevates the role women play in the world and further embraces them.

Watson is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, but she made special light of the fact that women are rarely seen directing Hollywood films. It might be worth mentioning that women on film are a necessity for the success of certain projects, but women behind the camera are inconsequential when faced with a gender stereotype that undermines their ability to secure those roles.

"Her HeForShe speech at Davos was an Internet sensation, but unsurprisingly, it drew the typical antifeminist rants and even some threats," Abramson said. "Watson chose to highlight the moving letters she has received from fathers who tell her they are investing new hope in the future for their daughters. But she was also frank about the bullying tactics of her detractors and one site that made an empty threat to release nude photos. Her confident and cool reaction: 'If they were trying to put me off, they did the opposite.'"

According to E! Online, following in her footsteps are actresses Patricia Arquette and Meryl Streep who have both been vocal about the issue.

"It's time for us. It's time for women. Equal means equal. It's inexcusable that we go around the world and talk about equal rights for women in other countries when we don't have equal rights for women in America," Arquette said in her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.