This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender … budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal policies and administration to address gender inequality … framework for assessing the effect of gender budgeting. States with gender budgeting efforts have made more progress on gender …

candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an … institutionalized demand-side barriers rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints …