On Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Budgets

"Gender mainstreaming" is recommended by the United Nations as an international strategy to promote gender equality.There are varying ways to achieve gender mainstreaming,one of which is to develop gender budgets and to which many countries have paid increasing attention and provided application.Gender budget is neither one which is specially designed for women,nor its purpose is to simply add budget lines targeting women.At the moment,there are over 60 countries that have experimented with gender budgets and have achieved noticeable results in promoting gender equality.China should learn from lessons learned in the world and increase attention by different ministries to gender budgeting in order to include gender consideration into the budgets of the government ministries.It is also recommendable to include gender budgeting in the annual discussions of budgets by the People's Congresses.