“The government does not set out to discriminate. Rather, it overlooks its own bias because it does not take the trouble to assess how policies affect women. Government budgets are supposed to be ‘gender-neutral;’ in fact, they are gender-ignorant.”
Author: Corey Greer
Corey Greer is the Communications Manager at Women's Action for New Directions, a non profit organization devoted to building women's political power to advocate for security and peace with justice. She was previously on the Gender Equality team the the United Nations Development Program in Istanbul and the Gender, Women and Democracy team at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
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