Role of Gender Budgeting in Women Development

The innovative concept of gender budgeting has received substantial attention worldwide. There are about 85 countries around the world which have followed gender budgeting. Gender budgeting is looking at the economy through women’s eyes. The issue of gender budgeting has become very much important in the present day Indian scenario for the social, economic and educational development of women as a whole. It is particularly important in the Indian context because a strong gender discrimination and cultural dominancy of male folk has been imposed on the female folk from a long time. With this background, the paper is intended to analyse the quantum of budgetary allocations for schemes/ programmes that substantially benefit women in gender budgeting statement in India.