women politicians more often bring attention to such issues as genderbased violence familyfriendly policies and responsiveness to citizen needs a judiciary that is representative of a country s population and its different perspectives is found to evoke greater societal trust add to the credibility of the judicial system and bring new insights to different challenges finally a diverse public sector at all levels helps to achieve fairness and improves the quality of service delivery through a better understanding of the citizenry these range from uneven access to decisionmaking posts across the public sector to the persistent pay gap and women s concentration in lowerpaid occupational groups