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The assumptions and calculations underlying the portion of the analysis based on the Statistics Canada Social Policy Simulation Database and Model (SPSD/M) simulation results were prepared by the author and Andrew Mitchell, and the responsibility for the use and interpretation of these data is entirely the author's. [...] Gender income gaps in Alberta are the largest in Canada, and women in Alberta perform an average of 35 hours of unpaid work each week - a disproportionate responsibility both compared to men in Alberta and to women in other provinces. [...] The steps taken by the Alberta government since 1995 to implement these three key aspects of the Platform are reviewed here briefly to situate this report in the context of what is expected of such governments in light of the Beijing Platform in relation to domestic fiscal gender equality issues, including all types of tax laws. [...] This report contextualizes the political economy of gender by comparing chronological overviews of the economic status of women in Alberta as compared with men in Alberta, with women in the rest of Canada, and with women and men in selected provinces, mainly Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Québec, on a range of issues. [...] Throughout the period from 1976 to 2011, men in Calgary have consistently had the highest incomes in the province, and, with the exception of two years, women in Calgary have had the highest women's incomes in the province.