IMPORTANCE OF BUDGETING SENSITIVE TO GENDER MAINSTREAMING: APPLICATIONS IN TURKEY AND VARIOUS COUNTRIES

Effects such as changing state understandings, national income, increase in welfare, importance given to human development, effect power of visual and printed media and emerging activities of non-governmental organizations caused the inequalities between men and women to arise and the solution methods for decreasing those inequalities to be searched. Budgeting sensitive to gender mainstreaming is considered to be one of the alternative solution methods aiming to determine the priorities of men and women and decrease the inequality between them. In this study, first of all, budgeting system sensitive to gender mainstreaming was introduced and the purpose of the system was emphasized. After that, policies developed for the application of this system in Turkey and all around the world were researched. The purpose of the study is to emphasize the necessity and functionality of budgeting system sensitive to gender mainstreaming in decreasing the inequalities between men and women. As a result işt was understood that budgeting applications sensitive to gender mainstreaming varies from country to country. While the budget spared for Women Status General Directorate within the general budget of Turkey in 2012 was 6.383.000 TL, this amount is determined as 7.006.000 TL according to year 2013 budget estimation. Although a real increase of 10% occurred in the mentioned amount, it was concluded that Turkey is beyond developed countries regarding this subject.