How responsive is this budget to gender? Reflections on the Budget Speech
Despite Government’s long-standing commitment to addressing gender-inequality, the Budget Speech 2021 was completely silent on discrimination against and inequality of womxn.
Overall, the cuts in social spending, will seriously deepen the reliance of our economy on womxn’s unpaid labour. And so the proposals will worsen inequality, as these additional burdens practically discriminate against girls and womxn across all areas of life. The R12bn promised by the President to address gender based violence is almost completely invisible in Mboweni's 2021 Budget documents.
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