A conceptual and analytical framework for gender mainstreaming in national accounts and national budget : words need numbers to influence them

Abstract

The United Nations, through the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration Goals (MDGs) has identied non-market work (NMW) as a key area of policy intervention for improving the situation of those in the unpaid sector, especially that of women. These international commitments now need to be translated into national policies for implementation. Policies are a mechanism that will allow the State to introduce change by rst integrating the statistically invisible unremunerated work into the System of National Accounts (SNA) and the national budget.