• Develop a deeper understanding of the sometimes-hidden ways social policies create, alleviate, or reinscribe gender, race, and class inequalities
• Acquire evidence-based lessons from around the world on what policies have worked best to reduce gender inequalities and their intersections with other forms of inequality
• Gain clarity on the major contemporary challenges to social welfare systems and their gendered impacts - from influxes of refugees to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Take lessons from history for thinking analytically and strategically about opportunities for pragmatic and transformational social policy change
• Present and articulate complex ideas clearly and in a manner suitable for a policy audience.