I think it's important to look at all of the instruments of governance that affect people. Clearly, the finance side of both tax expenditures and direct expenditures needs to be part of the analysis—and the gender implications of those things become very important.
In addition to that, of course, governments pass a lot of laws. They undertake a lot of regulations. These are very powerful instruments of governance, and one needs to ensure that the gender-based implications of what's happening there can clearly be undertaken.
The last point I would make is that governments also use “exhortation”, as it's called in the literature, or persuasion or rhetoric, in the best sense of the word. It's direction; it's giving commitment to things. The gender ramifications of those things, I think, need to be examined as well, so that we ensure that in all instruments of government those things can be undertaken.
But that's not enough. One also needs to look at private sector practices and begin to see what's happening there. Let me just give you a wee little example.
Yesterday I went to pick up my shirts at the dry cleaners. So I picked up my shirt and one for my wife. Well, of course, my shirt cost $3.10 per shirt and my wife's $4.95. Why is that the case? It's because the machines used here in Victoria only fit men's shirts; they don't fit women's shirts. Well, I think that's unfair; I think that's wrong. So there are many things in the private sector that should be improved and be looked at as well to ensure there is fairness across the genders. I have a great deal of difficulty explaining to my wife why we have to pay more for her shirts than for my shirts, and quite frankly, I don't think it's fair.