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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