I guess I would want to point back to one portion in the brief that responds to a question that was asked before which I didn't have time to answer. It speaks to the fact that gender equality, as it relates to income and influence, has been directly related to health, and in particular to health outcomes.
I pointed out that the inter-agency gender working group of the United States Agency for International Development took stock of some of the health programs that integrate gender. It did this first of all on behalf of the World Health Organization, and the programs they wanted to investigate were.... A lot of money was being invested in HIV/AIDS programs in Africa. They went through a number of studies that looked at where gender had been integrated and examined whether that had made a difference. In fact, that research did show that it makes a difference, at least in health.
I can't speak to some of the other areas—I'm a physician, a doctor, so it's not my area of interest. But certainly, as it applies to women's and men's health, integrating gender shows better health outcomes. I think that's what's important.