I agree with Janet that these are all critical issues, but I think there is something overlaying all of this; namely, when tax policy and income support programs are considered, there should always be a gender component. That's the important thing. What happens is that many times gender budgeting is over on its own. People talk about gender budgeting and then they talk about government policy. I think what's important is to bring them together.
For example, in the United States, when President Bush's tax cuts were put into effect, people did a lot of analysis on tax incidence. You heard that these were tax cuts for the rich, but nobody really looked at the gender impacts. Nobody looked at the income distribution and said who was going to benefit by gender.
Critical in all of the policies you just mentioned—and in gender budgeting initiatives, tax policy, income support policies, minimum wages—is to get gender considered as an integral part at the very beginning when analysis is going to take place. How is this going to effect women? How is this going to effect men?
You asked which of these is most important. They're all important, but I'd like to know what the impact is on women and how it is going to be different from the impact on men.