That is a very important question. I think the best answer is to take a look at which countries have been doing the most thorough and committed gender budgeting and then look at the very complex indicators that the UN, the World Economic Forum, and many other organizations have used, which attempt to bring everything from qualitative measures of life as well as economic indicators into the calculation.
I think it is very predictable that most of the Nordic countries, which have taken gender budgeting extremely seriously for quite a long time, are in fact the countries that have been most productive in increasing their gender and general human levels of development and have pulled very far ahead of Canada.
I will just give you one example. Although I'm not sure, I think it's Norway that is now working on closing the last ten percentage points in the overall development of women as compared to men, because there is so much thoroughgoing equality on all indicators in that jurisdiction. What they are doing now is initiating a campaign trying to explain to men that it is their responsibility to take paternity leave, to take parental leave, so that the burden of unpaid work does not sit solely on the shoulders of women. This was the next most important strategy that was revealed by using very careful statistical analysis. Where are the bottlenecks in closing that gender gap?
We can look to the use in various countries to get guidance.