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IN BRIEF/1Macroeconomic policies affect the availability of paidemployment and of the resources needed to implement socialpolicies. They are therefore critical for creating an enablingenvironment within which substantive equality for womencan be advanced./2Macroeconomic policies are typically assumed to be ‘genderneutral’.In practice, they have distributive consequences thatimpact differently on women and men and influence genderdynamics more broadly./3Current macroeconomic policies do not adequately considerthe importance of unpaid care and domestic work and ofnon-market investments in human beings. They have alsoartificially constrained the resources available to governmentsto finance policies and programmes for gender equality./4Macroeconomic and social policies need to work in tandemto ensure economic sustainability. The economic contributionof social policy and unpaid care and domestic work need tobe recognized and incorporated into macroeconomic policyformulation.