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Our collective understanding of the causes and consequences of gender gaps in the workforce, and what works to close them, is growing. Yet, gender gaps persist, and the array of potential policies can be overwhelming to navigate. Resistance to diversity initiatives makes the path to gender equality an even more challenging one. This presentation maps out a ‘big picture’ framework for navigating the research evidence on what works to close gender gaps in economic outcomes – and what doesn’t. This approach offers a framework to understand how various gender equality initiatives – from paid parental leave and diversity training to pay audits and gender-responsive budgeting – fit into society’s progressive journey to gender equality. This approach also prompts us to interrogate underlying motives for gender equality, to ask whether we have accurately defined “women’s ‘economic empowerment”, and to discover how an intersectional gender lens means more than simply disaggregating the data. This presentation interweaves these various dimensions, offering wide-reaching applicability to researchers, employers, policymakers and governments.