Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2018

GENDER DIMENSION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A NOTE ON GENDER BUDGETING

R. Bharathi

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India being a populous country, accounting 48 per cent of women and girls in total population is in need to attain gender equality. The rapidity in economic development forces the nation to attain women empowerment in order to attain human development. Policy measures have been taken by Indian government for the past two decades, focusing on women in order to qualify them economically. The proper way of institutionalizing these steps both at state and national levels is made possible by financial measuring tools and thus emerges gender budgeting. Gender budgeting is considered as one of the important tools to achieve gender equality because all policy frame works need financial allocation to have proper outcome. The commitment of the State in allocating resources for women, focusing on their education and employment and establishing suitable schemes favoring women shows a positive trend towards gender equality. At the same time, gender budgeting has not yet been given its due. Hence, an argument has been developed in this paper to ing out the adoption of gender budgeting in India at the earliest. Accordingly the policies framed should ing out the works done by women   that are not valued, at the first instance. Secondly, effective annual plans and five years plans should be framed along with required financial allocation. Apart from plans and resource allocation, the civil society should be targeted. Importance of gender equality can be taught at school level. Administrators can be directly approached regarding gender equality and committees at various stages can be appointed to monitor the outcome of gender budgeting.

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R.Bharathi, GENDER DIMENSION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A NOTE ON GENDER BUDGETING, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-3 | March-2018

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