Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) can be a powerful strategy for empowering women and achieving gender equality, by addressing gender concerns along the policy cycle of

India probably is the only nation in the world which exclusively enshrines female deities in artistically built temples. The Meenakshi temple at Madurai, Ambabai temple at Kolhapur and the Shantadurga and Mahalaxmi temples at Goa are ample proof of the Hindu reverence for female deities.