Yet their use is usually limited to ex ante assessments of regulatory and legislative initiatives, and they are used too late in the process to have a real impact on decision making, reducing it to a “tick the box” exercise rather than an informative tool. However, about a third of respondents indicated their plans to undertake such assessments, showing that the demand for such practice is starting to take hold across the OECD. There is much scope for advancing gender mainstreaming in the monitoring and evaluation phases of the policy cycle.