The women’s budget and The second women’s budget, Edited by Debbie Budlender

Despite decades of theorising and political struggle, feminists, and feminist economists in particular, are still constantly challenged to ‘tell us how it makes a difference’. In The second women’s budget, edited by Debbie Budlender, we have an excellent example of work that shows that gender does make a difference, not only in the’soft’ policy areas of welfare provision but also in the’hard’area of macroeconomic policy. The book is a worthy attempt to’mainstream’gender, by challenging the central tenets of macroeconomic policy and showing the direct relationship between economic assumptions and social outcomes. The term’women’s budget’ does not refer to a separate budget for women, but rather to the disaggregation of the national budget to measure its impact on both women and men.
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