This United Nations (UN) Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) (2005) paper reflects on the context within which the struggle for gender justice is played out in the global environment. It provides an analytical frame to explain the core of the tensions between gender justice and other elements of social/economic justice, and the strategic implications of the multiple sites in which gender relations operate. The paper specifically explores the interplay between the feminist agenda for gender justice and neoliberal economic thinking dominated by the Washington Consensus. The author comments on the implications for gender justice of the shift to a unipolar world order, and in particular, the movement from the neoliberal era to the neoconservative one.