在世界正在努力应对气候变化等危机的紧急后果的时候，性别平等倡导者说，我们需要比以往任何时候都多的女性。
That’s why, on July 2, the Generation Equality Forum Paris, hosted by UN Women, concluded with historic commitments – including nearly $40 billion of confirmed investments – from governments, philanthropies, corporations, civil society, and youth organizations to accelerate gender equality over the next five years. It’s an effort to put concrete action behind the intentions that were set in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the goals that were specified by Sustainable Development Goal 5.
“一代平等论坛标志着权力和观点的积极，历史性的转变，”联合国妇女执行董事Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka说新闻稿。“我们共同动员了从南部到北部的社会的不同部门，成为一支强大的力量，准备在性别平等开放新的篇章。”
巴黎活动于三月份举行了为期两周的开球聚会，在墨西哥城，联合国成员国采用了一套同意的结论这认识到有必要大大提高妇女在政府和公共部门的各个决策层面上的全面参与和领导。It recommended, for example, setting targets and timelines to achieve gender balance in government through quotas, appointments and training, changing laws and policies that hinder women’s equal participation in public service, measures to eliminate, prevent and respond to all forms of violence against women and girls, measures to support young women’s participation in public life, and reinforcing women’s presence and leadership in all places where climate change-related decisions are made.
阅读有关的全文性别平等乔安妮·鲁（Joanne Lu）在全球华盛顿（Global Washington）。
