Women around the world are changing the way we think about accountability and democratic governance. Impatient with inadequate service delivery, with gender biased rulings from judges, and with exclusion from market opportunities and from the ranks of decision-makers, women are demanding that power-holders correct for their failures to respond to women's needs or protect their rights. There are two essential elements to women's efforts to reform accountability systems. First, women insist that they are included in systems of oversight at every level. Second, the standards against which the actions of power-holders are judged must include the advancement of women's rights. When we ask 'Who answers to women?' we know who should answer to women but who does not. Women are now asking not only that power-holders answer to women, but that what they answer for gender equality, from now on.