Women and Government Budgets

Sharp, Rhonda; Broomhill, Ray

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.1990.tb00872.x

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“…To identify additional articles that may not have appeared in the initial keyword search, such as articles referring to 'women's budgets' (e.g. Sharp and Broomhill, 1990), we conducted a snowball search of the lists of references of identified articles (Wohlin, 2014). We searched the academic databases ProQuest, Web of Science, EBSCO/Business Source Complete and ABI/INFORM Global.…”

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Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda

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Nolte

Seiwald³

2021

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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Gender budgeting calls for including a gender perspective at all levels of governmental budgetary processes. While the literature on gender budgeting is interdisciplinary and covers a wide geographical range, it remains fragmented. This study uses a literature review to examine the current discourse on gender budgeting and to elicit avenues for future research. Our review shows that studies focus either on emerging economies, such as India or South Africa, or on countries in Europe. Drawing on an analytical framework, we find that most studies scrutinize the ex ante stages of gender budgeting, whereas less is known about the concurrent and ex post stages. Moreover, because little is known about the outcome and impact of gender budgeting, governments do not know what instruments function best in different settings. Given their ex ante focus, most studies on gender budgeting often either remain descriptive or analyse secondary data. Despite scholars from different disciplines contributing to the field of gender budgeting, several ‘blank spots’ remain, particularly in public sector accounting. Points for practitioners While current gender budgeting projects tend to focus on the ex ante stage of gender budgeting, future practitioner attention needs to focus on the equally important concurrent and ex post stages, which have received less attention thus far. An increasing number of governments worldwide are implementing gender budgeting projects. Governments need to evaluate the outcome and impact of these projects in a timely fashion, aiming at reducing structural inequalities related to gender. Gender budgeting is willingly adopted in times of prosperity and stability or when the scope of projects appears manageable. To avoid negative impacts on their achievements, policy makers need to put gender budgeting on the political agenda and institutionalize it in times of instability and crisis.

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Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda

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Seiwald³

2021

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…As such, it is fanciful to believe that the decision-making process is gender neutral. Rather, the role of the state in the budgetary decision-making process can have a profound effect upon material and behavioral gender inequity (Rhonda Sharp and Ray Broomhill 1990;Hanmer and Akram-Lodhi 1998). Therefore, researchers must rst assess the extent to which gender concerns have a "voice" in the policy process.…”

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"All Decisions Are Top-Down:" Engendering Public Expenditure in Vietnam

Akram‐Lodhi¹

2002

Feminist Economics

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Between October 1999 and June 2000 a joint government-donor working group undertook a public expenditure review in Vietnam that was supposed to use "gender issues" as a cross-cutting theme. The article discusses ways in which a gender analysis could have been incorporated into a review of public expenditure, and examines why this did not happen in the end. Flaws in the process reduced the scope of gender analysis. Institutional constraints on the part of both the government and the World Bank weakened the commitment to a gender analysis. More fundamentally, however, it is argued that the methodological approach of the World Bank rendered it incapable of investigating possibly unquantifiable macrostructural and mesoinstitutional determinants of individual behavior. It is further argued that the conceptualization of social institutions offered by the World Bank with regard to gender relations fails to adequately express the extent to which social institutions are gendered.Public Expenditure, Taxation, Public Economics, Gender Budgets, Vietnam, Gender Economics,

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“…A small number of countries, surprisingly located in very different regions of the world, have experience with gender audits: Australia, Canada, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, and England & Scotland (Budlander, 1996Budlander and Sharp, 1998;Elson, 1996 andHimmelweit, 1998;MacDonald, 1995;Sawer, 1990;Sharp and Broomhill, 1990;TNGP, 1999). In other countries, partial gender audits have been made, or information has been gathered systematically in order to pave the way for a gender audit.…”

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“…Australia was the first country that presented information on the gender effects of its budget, in 1984. This was done entirely from within the government system itself, together with the general budget statement (Sharp and Broomhill, 1990). Afterwards, gender audits were also developed at the state level.…”

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“…The activity of these groups became known as "Gender Audit" 9 . Hereby, pressure is put on states to comply with anti-discrimination rules for women, both from within (through female parliamentarians) and from outside the state (by experts designing and implementing gender audits) (Sharp and Broomhill, 1990). What is a surprise however, is that it took women so long to form such specialised groups, and that this kind of movement became most advanced in South Africa.…”

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Gender Audit: Whim or Voice

Krug,

van Staveren

2002

Public Finance and Management

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“Ethical auditing” is regarded as a new device for monitoring the behaviour of firms and governments. the best known example is the EU-guideline for eco-auditing which aims a monitoring compliance with “voluntary” environmental protection standards. Unlike eco-auditing which covers firms, “women's auditing” focuses on national budgets and the behaviour of governments. It is assumed that checking revenue and expenditure item-by-item gives a clearer picture about discrimination than merely looking at tax legislation or sectoral budgets. the first country where women's auditing became institutionalised was South Africa, quickly followed by Australia, Canada, and the labour government in the UK. The paper will give a descriptive analysis of women's budgets. It attempts to clarify in how far item-by-item monitoring does indeed help to overcome the specific asymmetric information problem at stake: Asymmetric information here, takes on the form of governments claiming that budgets are gender-neutral. the high individual search costs for getting access to budget proposals before they pass parliament in combination with the generally low representation of women in parliaments defines a formidable threshold for women. A further question to be addressed is whether or not an institution such as women's auditing can be an effective device in situations in which consumer/voters’ interest are hard to organise.

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Women and Government Budgets

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Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda

Gender budgeting in public financial management: a literature review and research agenda

"All Decisions Are Top-Down:" Engendering Public Expenditure in Vietnam

Gender Audit: Whim or Voice

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