四次妇女问题世界会议虽然取得了巨大成就，但工作才刚刚开始。这些世界会议触及到世界各地、各行各业的妇女，并使她们意识到赋予妇女权利和实现平等是完全正确的，并认识到自己理应享有的各项权利。《北京行动纲要》对基层妇女来说是一块基石。通过《纲要》，她们真正了解到任何人都不能仅仅因为性别原因而受到歧视。为实现这一目标而设立的机制尚未得到充分利用，并且还须进一步发展和加强。
Great though their achievements have been, the work of the four world conferences on women has only just started. Through these world conferences it has been possible to reach women in all walks of life in every corner of the globe and to awaken in them an awareness of the rightness of empowerment and equality and their entitlements. The Beijing Platform for Action is, for grass-roots women, the cornerstone whereby they may truly know that no person should be discriminated against on the grounds of their gender alone. The mechanisms that exist to forge this reality are not being adequately utilised but they also need to be further developed and strengthened.