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Developments
To overcome gender-blind policies and budgets many feminists and government officials from different countries took it upon themselves to analyze the differences and propose budgets that are considerate of the inequalities women face financially. Developments have been in practice in the United States and all over Europe.

In the United States there have been gender budgeting efforts in California and Georgia. San Francisco, CA began developing a gender sensitive budget in 1998; Fulton County, GA began gender budgeting efforts in 2007. In Georgia, gender budgeting researchers have gathered rich and useful data through interviews with policymakers concerned with gender equality and through multiple meetings involving a focus group composed of task members of different departments. In California, relevant data was collected through interviews, observations of a commission meeting, from non-profit organizations, and from the municipal website.

In Europe many countries have joined efforts in implementing gender sensitive budgets. Spain, Iceland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and the United Kingdom have all conducted research, collected data, and practiced different methodologies concerning gender budgeting. Vienna University of Economics and Business organized a conference with twenty different countries; this allowed for the countries to share their conceptual ideas, theories, and experiences. This engagement transformed economic models to focus on feminist economics, which take gender relations into account.

Challenges
When implementing gender budgeting in to policy there are many challenges and limitations. Many countries struggle to introduce the concept of gender budgeting Political, regional, and cultural factors are used as indicators to measure gender equality. These indicators are vital in the gender budgeting process; however, they fail to determine whether or not an ultimate goal has been reached. Also, gender budgeting is interdisciplinary, so different scholars struggle to accept techniques of gender budgeting. Feminists face the issue in trying to promote gender budgeting is creating connections and relationships with political actors that will pursue gender budgeting developments.