it highlights and explores hierarchical and unequal relations and roles between and among males and females the unequal value given to womens work and womens unequal access to power and decisionmaking as well as property and resources gender mainstreaming or integration helps assess the impact of different laws policies and programmes on groups of men and women as explained in the box below it is a strategy for making womens as well as mens concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design implementation monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated the ultimate goal is to achieve equality between men and women