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This chapter raises a series of questions on how gender budget analysis can reveal central concerns of gender equality as advanced by feminist economics and feminist public policy analysts. It discusses the importance of engaging in budgetary processes and decision-making to identify and eliminate the gendered effects across multiple policy domains including the care economy, definitions of gender equality, and the relevance of gender analysis to economic policy and decision-making.
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This is similar to the more familiar presentation of the distributional impact of a policy change on households ranked by income into quintiles, and the policy’s average effect on (equivalised) household net incomes within each quintile is shown. Any tax-benefit model, used to assess the effect of a policy change on different quintiles, can easily be adapted to show effects on gendered household types (Reed 2016).
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This is even excluding the effects of cuts in public services, which are harder to allocate at an individual level, but for reasons given below and elsewhere in this book, are likely to have more severe impacts on the opportunities and incomes of women than men.
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Himmelweit, S. (2018). Gender Equality Impact Assessment: A Core Element of Gender Budgeting. In: O'Hagan, A., Klatzer, E. (eds) Gender Budgeting in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64891-0_5
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