The overall objective is to fill a critical gap by focusing on the profound effects that gender norms and practices have had in shaping tax law and policy in different countries, and how taxation in turn affects the possibilities for equality along gender, race, class, sexuality and other lines. An important task is to transfer feminist tax expertise to reach richer quantitative and qualitative analysis rooted in lessons of many countries. Different projects in the research environment will explore, in an international frame, traversing countries and continents, questions about;
- how the gendered fiscal state might be theorized,
- how structural choices in tax policy design contribute to gender inequality,
- how tax policy affects family configurations and perceptions of what constitutes family,
- how fiscal systems impact on entrepreneurship, savings and wealth accumulation by women and men.