Gender-responsive systems analysis and assessment seems to me the solution for mainstreaming and integrating gender, where it must be integrated, to achieve gender equity and gender equality.
The real challenge is in intervening into the system to achieve social change. One route I find quite successful is empowering women in their accepted, current social roles such as economic social roles. The active and conscious influence on social roles and connected socio-cultural systems elements and structures is still a puzzle - and far from our projected causal impact pathways.