government expenditures to stimulate demand and full employment can be at least partially if not fully selffinancing if we consider a longerrun time horizon economists and policymakers have not typically thought about the gender effects of countercyclical or full employment policies but they should evidence suggests that in many countries women and racialethnic subordinate groups are at the back of the job queue during economic downturns making strategies to promote full employment part of the toolkit to achieve gender equality seguino couch and fairlie seguino and heintz the elr is a type of governmentfunded programme that employs all of the jobless who are ready willing and able to work in a publicsector project at a base wage