This joint submission by AWID, SRI, IWRAP Asia Pacific and the Feminist Diplomacy Lab was prepared in response to the Special Rapporteur’s call for input on the nexus between gender equality and the right to development. The submission shows how the unequal burden of care is perpetuated by systems of oppression including neoliberal capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism that subjugate and directly impede women, girls and gender diverse people’s right to development. To ensure their active, free and meaningful participation in development and achieve substantive equality requires tackling these oppressive systems by adopting a feminist and gender-transformative economic justice approach. This approach recognises that economic justice and gender justice are inextricably linked, that inequality is rooted in and exacerbated by capitalist logics prioritizing profit over the wellbeing of people and planet and that economic justice is essential for the realization of gender justice.