establish clear institutional roles and responsibilities for promoting gender balance in the public sector including independent recourse and appeal mechanisms which should be adequately funded resourced and linked to executive teams to ensure their effectiveness raise awareness of gender equality considerations among public sector managers and enhance management and executive accountability to ensure gender balance at all levels and occupational groups and deal with gender equality issues in workplaces including through performance management frameworks the oecd is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns such as corporate governance the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population