A Brief Overview of Gender Budgeting in Europe

Klatzer, Elisabeth; O’Hagan, Angela; Mader, Katharina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64891-0_3

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“…Governmental responses to crisis and recovery – such as centralizing decision-making and making cuts in public employment and public budgets (Kickert et al, 2015) – can lead to increased gender bias, thereby posing a serious threat to the institutionalizing of gender budgeting. The same threat holds for a focus on a ‘competitiveness state’ (Klatzer and Schlager, 2015: 146).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…We find a peak in publications in 2015 (nine publications), attributable mainly to a special issue in Politica Economica . This special issue compiles works on gender budgeting by authors with an established focus in this area, such as O'Hagan (2015, 2018), Erbe (2015), Klatzer (Klatzer and Schlager, 2015) and Addabbo (Addabbo et al, 2015). Recently, publications on gender budgeting have increased, with six to seven publications per year in 2017–2020.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some studies we examined offer practical recommendations at different levels – international, country and organizational. For example, Klatzer and Schlager (2015) emphasize that strategic documents such as the draft budgetary plans and other budgetary documents that governments annually submit to the European Commission lack sufficient gender perspective. They call for governments to further develop country-level instruments to facilitate a gender analysis of fiscal policies.…”

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“…Countries in different parts of the world have started gender budgeting over the last 20 years, and both developed and emerging economiessuch as Austria, India, Nigeria and Swedenare currently at different stages of implementing gender budgeting (Khalifa and Scarparo, 2020;Klatzer et al, 2018;Polzer and Seiwald, 2021;Singh, 2018). Whereas some studies identify a need for adopting gender budgeting in some countries (e.g.…”

Section: Gender Budgeting As a Research Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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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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confidence: 97%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Budgeting As a Research Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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“…Several governments, from both higher-income and emerging economies (EEs) (including Eastern European countries, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Serbia, Gender budgeting in emerging economies post-Soviet states, such as Russia and the Ukraine, and other EEs, like India and Nigeria) have already adopted strategies and tools for gender budgeting (Klatzer et al, 2018). Other governments have started discussing gender budgeting (such as in countries in Asia, e.g.…”

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Gender budgeting in emerging economies–a systematic literature review and research agenda

Nolte

Polzer

Seiwald³

2021

JAEE

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PurposeGender budgeting aims to include a gender perspective at all stages of the budgetary process. Emerging economies (EEs) face different challenges in gender equality to high-income economies–with larger informal economic sectors that typically employ a larger proportion of women and weaker political accountability. We analyse the literature on gender budgeting in EEs and derive avenues for future research.Design/methodology/approachAdopting a systematic literature review, we investigate the focus of research on gender budgeting in EEs and analyse how the literature has developed over the last decade.FindingsOur results show that gender budgeting is a relevant topic in EEs. The literature focuses on overall rationales for employing gender budgeting and its theoretical implementation. However, many studies remain explorative, reviewing existing content without collecting new and potentially more suitable data. The evidence on the success of gender budgeting initiatives is mixed. While a number of studies present positive experiences regarding certain aspects of gender budgeting, other studies discuss a decoupling between adopted instruments and their actual use, as well as projects not being further pursued or developed when donors retreat.Originality/valueGiven the identified lack of studies reporting on actual implementation experiences, future research should address gender budgeting from an accounting and accountability perspective and focus on the reform impacts.

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Gender Budgeting

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2024

Public Sector Financial Management

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A Brief Overview of Gender Budgeting in Europe

Cited by 9 publications

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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

Gender budgeting in emerging economies–a systematic literature review and research agenda

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