Gender budgeting in Slovenia—approaches, achievements, and complexities

Most EU countries design public policies without any systematic consideration of gender equality. Qualitative research in this article evidences Slovenia progress in implementing gender responsive budgeting. The authors' analysis of the Slovenian government's budgets for 2005, 2018 and 2019 reveals few policies and programmes with gender equality as a key concern. Gender sensitivity should not be evaluated solely on gender measures / however, this article is a pioneer attempt to assess the Slovenian gender budgeting approach and progress, and provides a starting point for future evaluations.