I think you start with the eight steps that Nancy Peckford outlined. You make sure you have somebody who can do research on the realities of women's lives, which is the piece that is missing, assumptions of gender neutrality, etc. That's where this all goes off the rails.
To give you a really quick example, the recommendations regarding the green tax levies on certain vehicles and the repeal of the excise tax exemption for bio-favourable fuels, the Department of Finance simply says both men and women drive, so this has no gender impact. But if you look, even two minutes of research will disclose that women drive completely differently, from the cars they buy, whether they're new or used, whether they can afford the new hybrid vehicles that will get these tax rebates, whether they can afford to pay more for their ethanol, and so on, now that the excise exemption has been repealed. And you see that because women's incomes are so much lower, because women do a lot more stop-and-start driving because they have to drop the kids off at day care, go to the dry cleaner, go to the grocery store, go to work, pick the kids up....
What's missing is researchers who are willing and able to fill in the gender context on both sides of each and every tiny issue that's being examined. That's the key piece, and that's what Status of Women is uniquely able to provide.