Gender budgeting--The fiscal mystique
Designing budgets to support sexual equality is good for growth.
fiscal/‘f?skl/ ?adj. 會計的，財政的；國庫的
mystique /m?’stik/ 傳奇，奧秘
[1]LIKE many rich-country governments, Britain’s prides itself on pursuing policies that promote sexual equality. However, it fails to live up to its word, argues the Women’s Budget Group, a feminist think tank/t??k/that has been scrutinising/?skrutn?a?z/Britain’s economic policy since 1989. A report in 2016 from theHouse of Commons Library,an impartial/?m'pɑr??l/research service, suggests that in 2010-15 women bore the cost of 85% of savings to the Treasury worth ￡23bn ($29bn) fromausterity measures, specifically cuts in welfare/'w?l'f?r/benefits/'b?n?f?t/and in direct taxes. Because women earn less, rely more on benefits, and are much more likely than men to be single parents, the cuts affected them disproportionately[,dispr?'p?:??nitli].
tank/t??k/vt. 把…貯放在柜內；打敗
think tank 智囊團
scrutinising/?skrutn?a?z/
House of Commons Library,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_Library
impartial/?m’pɑr??l/adj. 公平的，公正的；不偏不倚的
austerity measures ?n. 緊縮；樸素；苦行；嚴厲
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