Girls should be allowed to swim in a separate time zone, more female artists are needed, it is necessary to review the fact that boys are in the middle of schoolyards. The brand new, "sensitive" budget of the third most populous French city sets itself such and similar goals.
Gender-sensitive budgets emphasizing gender equality have been adopted in several French cities: in Lyon, supported by left-wing parties, this "gender budget" is being introduced for the first time, reports hirado.hu based on the Valeurs Actuelles article .
What does heterodoxy mean?
Among the antecedents of gender-sensitive budgeting is that "many people in heterodox economic circles are dissatisfied with the unfavorable economic conditions caused by the extensive use of neoclassical economic instruments." Not only is there a growth gap between countries, but the gap between women and men at the economic, political, and social levels persists, and in the worst case, is deepening," economist Valéria Szekeres previously wrote in a study.
Heterodoxy was defined by Ákos Péter Bod, an economist, politician, and former president of the MNB, as follows: "under this rarely defined term, in economic theory, they usually mean other professional trends beyond the accepted, defining, mainstream trend of the era".
Maintaining the town hall is neither a boy nor a girl...
Her initiative, "Gender Adaptive Budgeting", has recently been adopted in several cities in France, including Lyon, Rennes, Brest and Montreuil. As reported by Le Parisien, on Monday, March 29, the socialist, communist and green party representatives of these large settlements decided to take steps with this budget tool for gender-sensitive approaches.
Audrey Hénocque, deputy mayor of the Green Party of Lyon, who stands up for finances, told LCI television: during the creation of a gender-sensitive budget, of course there are still items that have little to do with gender neutrality, such as the maintenance of the town hall building. He added: they strive for these items to represent a smaller proportion of the budget.
Discriminated sports teams: less support for men
Ensuring equal opportunities for men and women includes, among other things, providing time slots for girls in the skating rink and in the swimming pools. They also pay attention to the fact that local governments provide more support for women's than men's sports teams, and this attention even affects schoolyards, where they want to eliminate the fact that girls are pushed to the edge of the yard, while boys occupy the inner spaces. , thus the location of the ball games.
Since more women go to museums, they want to encourage men to visit more exhibitions, while in the arts they strive to have more female creators.
Source: hirado.hu
