this chapter maps women s access to public life and highlights the rationale and the scope for the study it outlines study objectives and details the methodology adopted in preparing the report it highlights active measures to advance gender equality in public life and provides actionable recommendations to governments supported by examples of good practices from oecd countries and key partner countries it also falls under the broader framework of the oecd gender initiative launched by ministers in to help governments in oecd and nonoecd countries promote gender equality by deepening the knowledge base on gender equality issues further developing indicators to measure progress in gender equality developing evidencebased policy recommendations and enhancing crossnational policy learning and transferability