Gender budgeting involves analysis of any form of public revenue expenditure, so identifying the impacts on men and women, girls and boys, is not a simple task, is it? Governments do not simply take money from some and hand it over to the others. No, governments spend billions of dollars on programs that benefit both sexes. To what degree? Who knows.
How much would gender budgeting cost the government, and how many public servants would be involved in this complicated endeavour? I would like to know that.
I have two more short questions. Why budget with only gender in mind? What about other groups in the population? Those interests have received insufficient attention.
The other question is, who determines the benefits women derive from a particular policy, and how would these benefits be measured?