• An understanding of the sometimes-hidden ways social policies reinscribe gender, race and class inequalities
• Evidence-based lessons from around the world on what policies have worked best to reduce gender inequalities and their intersections with race and class
• Clarity on the major contemporary challenges to social welfare systems and their gendered impacts - from influxes of refugees to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Lessons from history for thinking analytically and strategically about opportunities for pragmatic and transformational social policy change