The Gender, Trade and Development Program challenges the theory that trade is gender neutral. The program seeks to make trade more equitable for women, peoples and nations and to make trade work for development. Our strategy is to transform trade and investment policy at the global and regional levels through gender-sensitive research, advocacy and trade literacy work and to bring women's voices and perspectives into the formation of trade policy and trade negotiations. The program works in collaboration with women from the North and Global South to address the macroeconomic policies that are impoverishing women everywhere.

• Trade Analysis with a Values Lens
  Our economic analysis is informed by two intersecting value systems: a feminist political economy (FPE) and Catholic Social Thought (CST). FPE and CST are both constructed on the foundation of the dignity of the human person, community and the global common good as essential for the human person to flourish and societies to be just.

• Trade Agreements
  Trade agreements are being negotiated in many arenas. This section focuses on analysis and advocacy related to U.S. bilateral trade and the World Trade Organization.