Getting a gender-responsive budget back into balance

"Once upon a time, Australia was the world leader in using its budget to promote gender equality. In 1984, the Federal Government implemented the world’s first gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) initiative. The Women’s Budget Program used the budget to systematically identify opportunities to advance gender equality through expenditures, allocations and taxation. And it was ace." Project Co-ordinator Romy Listo and Program Manager Helen Dalley-Fisher have written this article for Broad Agenda.