Useful areas for further study and policy action include: the routine availability of gender-disaggregated data; embedding of gender-specific approaches within the normal annual routines of budgeting; and complementing executive-led approaches with external quality assurance. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Today many disparities and inequalities between the sexes appear to have become embedded, to a greater or lesser extent, in the baseline of public policies and the allocation of public resources.