THE GENDERED DESIGN and implications of many areas of law, economics and political science have been subject to robust, thoughtful, detailed analysis and critique. While a gender analysis of tax policy exists, its contours have not been explored with the same degree of scrutiny and a gender analysis of much public policy in the tax area is missing altogether. This book begins 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 impacts upon the possibilities for equality along gender, race, class, sexuality and other lines. The chapters explore 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, and how fiscal systems impact savings and wealth accumulation by women and men. Most significantly, perhaps, the book explores these questions in an international frame, traversing countries and continents. The conclusion: fiscal policy has deep-rooted, long-standing gender implications that affect virtually every aspect of our social, political and economic lives whether we live in Canada, Australia or Kenya.