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A portfolio of three, interrelated scholarly works – woven together by themes of evidence-based decision-making, systems thinking, and personal and professional reflexivity – demonstrates a multilevel approach to addressing women’s equity through planning practice. The portfolio components include: (1) a published, co-authored journal article describing how a systematic review methodology can be modified to support informed decision-making in planning practice; (2) a sole-authored journal article exploring the role of, and relationships between, multilevel, gender-based planning instruments within an overarching theory of change; and (3) an academic book proposal providing evidence of the disparate impacts of gender-based planning interventions on a diverse population and providing recommendations for addressing individual and systemic bias in planning practice. By devoting attention – and intention – to understanding the roles and impacts of planning instruments, institutional structures, and personal biases on women’s equity, this portfolio of epistemic objects guides planning practitioners as they weigh planning decisions, address organizational path dependencies, confront personal, institutional, and systemic biases, and ensure that women’s inequity does not continue to be manifested and embedded in spatial patterns and decisions. Supplementary materials have been provided to augment the findings outlined in this synthesis paper. A complete catalogue of the Canadian gender-based planning instruments found through this research has been compiled into a summary table. The table includes the city and province of each intervention, year, instrument name, instrument type, stage of activity (e.g., planning, engagement, operational, monitoring and evaluation, etc.), Council and operational supports, and participation in the UNESCO Inclusive Municipalities program. The supplementary materials also include an intervention matrix, which summarizes the priority area, categorical objective, aspect targeted (e.g., policy, leadership, accountability, etc.), intersectional characteristics identified, instrument type, target audience, stage of activity, and indicators identified for each women’s equity objective statement found in the research.","abstract_html":"This research examines how urban planners can better understand and improve gender-based interventions and address the individual, institutional, and systemic biases that have contributed to women’s inequality in the urban environment through data-driven analysis and evaluation. Rooted in a pragmatic, social constructionist theoretical perspective, this research acknowledges that lived experience is intrinsically linked to both knowledge about and action relating to the socio-spatial environment. A portfolio of three, interrelated scholarly works – woven together by themes of evidence-based decision-making, systems thinking, and personal and professional reflexivity – demonstrates a multilevel approach to addressing women’s equity through planning practice. The portfolio components include: (1) a published, co-authored journal article describing how a systematic review methodology can be modified to support informed decision-making in planning practice; (2) a sole-authored journal article exploring the role of, and relationships between, multilevel, gender-based planning instruments within an overarching theory of change; and (3) an academic book proposal providing evidence of the disparate impacts of gender-based planning interventions on a diverse population and providing recommendations for addressing individual and systemic bias in planning practice. By devoting attention – and intention – to understanding the roles and impacts of planning instruments, institutional structures, and personal biases on women’s equity, this portfolio of epistemic objects guides planning practitioners as they weigh planning decisions, address organizational path dependencies, confront personal, institutional, and systemic biases, and ensure that women’s inequity does not continue to be manifested and embedded in spatial patterns and decisions. Supplementary materials have been provided to augment the findings outlined in this synthesis paper. A complete catalogue of the Canadian gender-based planning instruments found through this research has been compiled into a summary table. 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