The contributors cover three broad areas - macro-economics and gender, gender and the state, and the institutionalisation of gender considerations in national and international organisations. Using original empirical material, in particular from Latin American countries, they explore a wide range of key issues. These include the gender-differentiated effects of economic policy and public spending decisions; unpaid household labour and its measurement; gender statistics; gender equality in planning and public policy; and the notion of economies as gendered structures Part 1: Macroeconomics and Gender 1. Broadening the Foundations of Economics through a Gender Approach: New Developments 2. Engendering Macroeconomics 3. Social and Gender Issues in Macroeconomic Policy Advice 4. Macroeconomics and Gender: Options for their Integration into a State Agenda 5. Economic Policies and Public Spending: Gender-Differentiated Effects 6. Unpaid Household Labour in the Economy: A Conceptual Approach 7. Measurement and Valuation of Unpaid Household Production: A Methodological Contribution 8. Do we Have Gender Statistics? Part 2: Gender and the State 9. Engendering the State: Between Disenchantment and Hope 10. State Modernisation, Institutional Change and Gender Part 3: Institutionalising Gender in National and International Organisations 11. Gender Equality in Public Planning 12. ECLAC's approach to Gender Equality in Public Policies 13. The Institutionalisation of the Gender Approach at ECLAC Part 4: Case Studies from Latin America 14. Gender and the Labour Market in Colombia 15. Gender and Rural Poverty in Colombia 16. Understanding Central American Economies as Gendered Structures