This article discusses the concept of gender budgeting. While not a new idea, it is again being brought to the forefront as countries across the world are implementing policies based on this modeling.
At its core, gender budgeting simply does a cost benefit analysis of the effects of different policies for men and for women. While this seems like a logical method for analyzing policy, it is not used nearly as much as it should. Methods such as gender budgeting allow women's issues to be brought to the forefront and infuse every policy decision with the impact it will have on women. Despite making up half our population, women largely fall to the wayside. The growth of gender budgeting is a step in the right direction for women all over the world.
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