BEIJING, MArch 10th (AMSP/CGTN) – – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has announced that China will convene a Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Beijing in the latter half of this year. Thirty years ago, Beijing bore witness to the determination of women worldwide to seek gender equality at the Fourth World Conference on Women. In the three decades since then, we have seen progress in gender equality and women’s empowerment.
However, in this exclusive interview, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed tells CGTN’s Tian Wei that there’s still a long way to go.
“You know, we’ve had a lot of success for getting more women into decision-making roles, but getting them there doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ve achieved the end result of having the impact felt of all the goals that we have asked for. Getting there means it’s the beginning of another battle. We, as we open up the space for women’s leadership, have to bring in more women to the table. And we have to make sure that we are working with them in the same way that we believe our participation is useful, and come together with that. We need to be at the table of peace, we need to be at the table of sustainable development; we are getting better at it, but we’re still not there yet. We need to be at the table where technology, as it is designed, as algorithms are designed. We need to be at the table so that all of these don’t affect us. And I think that this is going to be a continuous exercise in trying to make that happen. I’m excited about the potentials and opportunities. Young people are doing it better. We’re seeing more young women in those spaces. But we, as the generation behind them, I stood on the shoulders of some women, and I hope that others will stand on our shoulders, but we need to do faster,” Amina J. Mohammed tells CGTN.
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