abstract: 'The UK Women''s Budget Group (WBG) is a think tank focusing on the gender

  implications of economic policy that attempts to influence UK government

  policy to be more gender aware and adopt policies that decrease gender

  inequality. The WBG has had the over-arching aim of encouraging the

  government to take account of gender ill policy formation and to monitor

  and hold itself accountable for the gender effects of its policies. At

  the same time the WBG has advised the government on the gender effects

  of particular policies and proposed inodifications to make policies more

  supportive of (or less harmful to) women, and poor women in particular.

  Such advice hag covered a number of areas, including fiscal policy, tax

  credits, income support, financial Support for children, childcare

  policy, maternity and parental leave, work-life balance policies,

  pensions, pay equity, training and productivity, the use of indicators

  and the collection of government statistics. While the government has

  been keen to acknowledge the WBG''s influence on certain policies, in

  other areas the WBG has had no discernible effect on policy. This

  analysis focuses on several common gender issues, including taking

  account of gendered life-courses, intra- as well as inter-household

  gender inequalities, valuing and remunerating care and accounting for

  unpaid work, to assess the WBG''s impact and possible reasons for success

  or failure.'
affiliation: Open Univ, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England.
author: Himmelweit, S
author_list:
- family: Himmelweit
  given: S
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1300/J501v27n01\_07
files: []
issn: 1554-477X
journal: JOURNAL OF WOMEN POLITICS \& POLICY
keywords: 'children; welfare; tax policy; United Kingdom; intra-household

  allocation; care work'
language: English
number: 1-2
number-of-cited-references: '10'
pages: 109-121
papis_id: 97467532992a3941f6a1189ed1669bcb
ref: Himmelweit2005makingpolicymakers
times-cited: '7'
title: 'Making policymakers more gender aware: Experiences and reflections from the
  Women''s Budget Group in the United Kingdom'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000235549200007
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usage-count-since-2013: '20'
volume: '27'
web-of-science-categories: Political Science; Women's Studies
year: '2005'