1) Gender budgeting aims to promote transparency and participation in budgetary processes by analyzing how public funds are allocated and who benefits in terms of gender. 2) In Scotland, the Scottish Women's Budget Group was established in 2000 to advocate for gender budgeting and build capacity. They analyze budget documents and provide input to government committees. 3) Over 10 years, there has been some progress in Scotland including greater transparency of budget processes and participation through partnerships. However, challenges remain around fully integrating gender analysis into economic modeling that informs spending decisions.

1. Gender Budgeting in Practice? The Scottish Experience NICVA CEE Masterclass Belfast Friday 18th November 2011 Ailsa McKay Glasgow Caledonian University Scotland

5. Valuing Women? For a certain percentage of persons to serve other persons, in order that the ones so served may produce more, is a contribution not to be overlooked. The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could: and in this way women are economic factors in society. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics, 1898)

6. A Global Issue? The informal slogan of the Decade of Women became “Women do two-thirds of the world’s work, receive 10 percent of the world’s income and own 1 percent of the means of production.” Richard H. Robbins, (1999) Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, p. 354

8. Scotland What and Who do we Value? “ Thank you for your positive paper on Modern Apprenticeships and Gender Based Occupational Segregation in Scotland. Before I take time to digest the contents, I ask why, given the subject, the paper has been prepared by three women? Are there no males in the Department of Economics and Enterprise who can be found who have either interest or knowledge in the subject? Could you also please advise if any of the three ladies involved in compiling this paper have any practical experience of working in an industrial workplace for any period of time or if all come from a background of academia? The questions I ask are serious and not intended to be facetious.” Letter from Member of Scottish Parliament April 2004

9. And it Continues….. There is a significant liability that still needs to be addressed, and that is before we come on to what we believe is the continuing discrimination in the brand new pay system that single status was intended to introduce. We have had the new scheme independently analysed. I do not want to go into the detail of that too much; suffice it to say that it has 13 factors that people are evaluated on, 12 of which favour men. We have got rid of the bonus and in its place we have a new discriminatory system. In response, in order to protect the interests of our members, we have no option other than to continue to mass litigate. Currently, we are lodging 500 new claims every mont h… Peter Hunter, UNISON, Equal Opportunities Official Report 26 th Oct 2010 Col 2139

10. The Work women do – a question of values?

19. The Activities of SWBG: building capacity

21. Scottish Gender Budget Initiative?