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Article: Gender Responsive Budgeting
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- Dollars & Sense
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Economic Affairs Bureau May/Jun 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT DECISIONS ON WOMEN AND GIRLS; THE UNITED STATES LAGS BEHIND.
Government budgets are far from bureaucratie exercises. They are profound expressions of how those who govern a country distribute its resources and how the results of their policies help or harm different sectors of its population. Budgets inevitably represent a series of trade-offs. In themselves, though, the numbers don't illuminate the high stakes, especially for women and other groups marginalized in the decision-making process.
Budgets are not gender neutral, either in their development or in their impact. Because the different impacts that women and men ...