the recommendation promotes a governmentwide strategy for gender equality reform sound mechanisms to ensure accountability and sustainability of gender initiatives and tools and evidence to inform inclusive policy decisions it also promotes a wholeofsociety approach to reducing gender stereotypes encouraging women to participate in politics and removing implicit and explicit barriers to gender equality this work builds on the work and expertise of the oecd public governance committee and its policy communities such as the public employment and management network and the working party of senior budget officials including the report women government and policymaking in oecd countries fostering diversity for inclusive growth and the global oecd roundtables on better governance for gender equality