Gender Budget and Care : Macroeconomic Analysis from the Gender Perspective

In most, if not all, bodies of knowledge, domestic structures, particularly unpaid care labour, appear to remain as taken-for-granted. In this article we argue the gender budget from the methodological point of view. In so doing, we shall explore some implications of including the domestic as one of the sectors, along with the public and private sectors; and of including circuits structured by interpersonal relations of kinship, friendship and mutuality, as well as those of commerce and citizenship. There are two principles of gender budget: namely 1) the assessment of budget impact on an individual as well as a household basis, and 2) the recognition of the economic contribution of unpaid care labour, which is done primarily by women. We also acknowledge that macro-level analysis of gender budget is to be complement with micro-level analysis of family