These two statements are taken from the Declaration and Platform for Action prepared by the delegates during the Beijing Conference in 1995 aiming to achieve greater equality and opportunity for women. This aim, which was expressed a quarter of a century ago, still maintains its validity. On International Women’s Day in 2021, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director, asserts that “We need women’s representation that reflects all women and girls in all their diversity and abilities and across all