I can give you a relatively narrow but concrete example of where it's made a difference.
When we're designing economic immigration policies and programs, some of them involve work experience requirements. In developing the federal skilled trades program and a decision to require two years' work experience, it was recognized that many women have breaks in employment and are more likely to engage in part-time work. That was worked into the requirements to recognize that we didn't want to put up any barriers to female tradespeople. The way of addressing those work requirements took that into account in a very direct way.