1. Gender Budget Analysis

2. Scottish Women’s Budget Group
Voluntary, unfunded, academic; public, private, third sector;
Pressing for gender analysis in public finance and policy processes
Identifying impact and restructuring resource allocation to eliminate unequal impact and advance equality
Influencing Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government; informing women in communities.

4. Gender Budget Analysis
“Can you imagine the nation’s annual budget
becoming a realistic description of the wellbeing of
the community and its environment, a reflection of
real wealth and different values? The budget would
answer all of the following. Who does what work
and where – paid and unpaid? What is the
position of the nation’s children and the aged?
Who is not housed adequately? Who has the
poorest health?...”
(Marilyn Waring (1988) If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics )

5. Gender Budget Analysis
Challenge assumption that budgets are gender-neutral
Examination of allocation of public resources for impact on women and men
Redistribution of resources to advance equality
Gender impact assessment and gender policy analysis reveal different and unequal outcomes for women and men from public spending decisions
Challenge system of national accounts - making care and unpaid work visible

7. Impact of public finance decisions
Women as public sector workers and service users
Women entered the current era of austerity in a position of longstanding economic disadvantage compared to men
Combined effects of reduction in public spending, tax and benefit reforms - women, older women, lone parents, disabled people.

8. Gender budgeting as feminist policy change
Improves women’s rights, status or situation relative to men’s
Reduces gender-based hierarchies
Avoids distinction between public and private spheres
Focuses on women and men
Can be identified with recognised feminist movements
Is a “gender status” policies - remedy disadvantage and discrimination against women as women
“class-based” policies - target the unequal distribution of resources and sexual division of labour n of resources and sexual division of labour

9. Factors of feminist policy change
Active and engaged feminist organisations
Open government structures
Effective gender equality architecture/women’s policy agencies
External influences
Policy learning and diffusion through transnational networking
Constellation of engaged actors
Access to strategic actors in key policy venues
Favourable economic conditions (?)
Time and temporal dimensions
Critical framing of feminist policy change arguments and demands
Maximising political change
Mix of engaged actors
Feminist policy change and policy analysis literature explores the factors supporting and contributing to feminist policy change and the introduction and progression of gender equality policy. Sally Kenney, Louise Chappell, Amy Mazur, Karen Beckwith, This analytical basis had not featured in the gender budgeting literature and offered a useful framework and bridge between the descriptive accounts of attempts to introduce and implement gender budgeting in earlier experiences in Australia and South Africa and other initiatives in the global south. There was an undeclared overlap between the feminist political analysis and the feminist economics accounts which had not been developed previously.

11. Scottish Budget £37bn Draft Budget October Budget Bill mid-January
Equality Budget Statement (since 2009)
Equality Budget Advisory Group