Gender Budgeting in Europe: Developments and Challenges

This book takes a broad look at conceptual and practicalapplications of gender budgeting in Europe. It comprises threelinked sections that work through conceptual definitions of genderbudget analysis. These sections explore how it can be framed and constructed as a gender equality policy; investigatecase studies across Europe; and examine challenges for implementation.

The first book of its kind, Gender Budgeting in Europe explores conceptual and methodologicalvariations evidence in practice in Europe and the challenges ofadoption and implementation in different political and institutionalcontexts. Itbrings together historical and currentconceptual developments and tensions; approaches, methodologies, and tools in practice across Europe; activism, actors and agency andthe engagement of formal institutions at all levels of government with feminist policy changes and feminist analysis and activists.

This text isfascinating reading for students, scholars, policy makers and activists.