Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

Nkwake, Apollo M.

doi:10.1080/13552070903009726

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“…Whereas decisions about health care often involve money for travel and services, and money is often under the jurisdiction of male authority, decisions about infant care are often left to mothers themselves. Some societies have deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the gendered division of family responsibilities, with men focusing on financial matters and women focusing on household matters, even when those women work in the formal sector or outside of the home, as documented by Nkwake [ 26 ] in Uganda. Taking care of the family, deference to men, and inequality with men at home and in public are gender norms that form a “model of domestic virtue,” which has persisted over the past century [ 27 ].…”

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Engaging men to promote and support exclusive breastfeeding: a descriptive review of 28 projects in 20 low- and middle-income countries from 2003 to 2013

Yourkavitch

Alvey

Prosnitz

et al. 2017

J Health Popul Nutr

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BackgroundLay support has been associated with improved breastfeeding practices, but studies of programs that engage men in breastfeeding support have shown mixed results and most are from high-income countries. The purpose of our research is to review strategies to engage men in exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) promotion or support in 28 project areas across 20 low- and middle-income countries. This information may be used to inform program implementers and policymakers seeking to increase EBF.MethodsWe tested the difference between baseline and final EBF proportions using Pearson’s chi-square (a = 0.05) and identified project areas with a significant increase. We categorized male engagement strategies as low- and high-intensity, using information from project reports. We looked for patterns by intensity and geography and described strategies used to engage men in different places.ResultsTwenty-eight projects were reviewed; 21 (75%) were in areas where a statistically significant increase in EBF was observed between the beginning and end of the project. A variety of high- and low-intensity male engagement strategies was used in areas with an increase in EBF prevalence and in all geographic regions. High-intensity strategies engaged men directly during home or health visits by forming men’s groups and by working with male community leaders or members to promote EBF. Low-intensity strategies included large community meetings that included men, and radio messages, and other behavior change materials directed towards men.ConclusionMale engagement strategies took many forms in these project areas. We did not find consistent associations between the intensities or types of male engagement strategies and increases in EBF proportions. There is a gap in understanding how gender norms might impact male involvement in women’s health behaviors. This review does not support the broad application of male engagement to improve EBF practices, and we recommend considering local gender norms when designing programs to support women to EBF.

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Engaging men to promote and support exclusive breastfeeding: a descriptive review of 28 projects in 20 low- and middle-income countries from 2003 to 2013

Yourkavitch

Alvey

Prosnitz

et al. 2017

J Health Popul Nutr

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“…In various social spaces, very different from the previous ones, a weak or non-existent relationship is obtained between the mother´s participation in the labor market and the father´s participation in child care, as in the cases of Suppal and Roopnarine (1999), for India, or Nkwake (2009), for Uganda.…”

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“…Centering our attention on childcare, empirical evidence with time-use data shows clearly two types of results. First of all, there exists a group of studies which found some sort of relationship between the mother´s participation in the labor market and the father´s involvement in childcare, albeit this relationship is rather weak and unsatisfactory (Darling-Fisher and Tiedje, 1990;Bonney et al, 1999;Suppal and Roopnarine, 1999;Kitterød and Pettersen, 2006;Nkwake, 2009;Rizavi y Sofer, 2010).…”

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Can an egalitarian reform in the parental leave system reduce the motherhood labor penalty? Some evidence from Spain

Fernández‐Cornejo¹,

Pozo-García²,

Mangas³

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The article analyzes how an egalitarian reform in the parental leave system may reduce the motherhood penalty. We used a sample of heterosexual dual-earner couples, with children between 3-8 years old, residing in Madrid and its metropolitan area. We show, first, that the introduction of a 13-day paternity leave increased significantly the average number of days that employed fathers were off work after the birth or adoption of a child. Second, we found some empirical evidence that fathers who took longer leaves tended to be subsequently more involved in the care of their children. And third, we obtained some evidence in favor of the hypotheses that when the father is actively involved in the care of his child the mother tends to experience less work penalty. We also considered the effect of other variables such as having egalitarian gender attitudes, working in a family-friendly company, earnings and the working week.

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“…İlk olarak katılımcıların ölçeklerden aldıkları puanlara ilişkin betimleyici istatistikler Tablo 2'de verilmektedir. Yukarıdaki bilgilerin yanında literatürde babaların daha gelenekselci tutum içinde olduğuna (Evans, 1997), annelere kıyasla daha düşük düzeyde eşitlikçi görüşe sahip olduğuna (Ishii-Kuntz ve arkadaşları, 2004), geleneksel cinsiyet ideolojisi ile baba katılımı arasında negatif yönde bir ilişkinin olduğuna (Williams, 2009), eşitlikçi babaların gelenekselci babalara göre çocukla birlikte geçirilen zaman açısından daha fazla katılım sağladığına, daha az geleneksel tutuma sahip babaların, hem baba katılımının çeşitliliğinde, hem de çocukla geçirilen zaman oranında daha katılımcı olduğuna (Bulanda, 2004), çocuk bakımını kadın işi olarak gören cinsiyet normlarının erkeklerin çocuk bakımına katılımı konusunda engel olarak görüldüğüne (Nkwake, 2009) yönelik bulgular mevcuttur. Yani ebeveynlik rollerine yönelik algıların ebeveyn tutumlarıyla bağlantılı oluşu, özellikle otoriter babaların daha gelenekselci tutuma sahip olabileceği göz önüne alındığında, bu bilgiler çalışmanın bulgularını daha iyi yorumlayabilmemize katkı sağlayabilir.…”

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Okul Öncesi Dönemdeki Baba Katılımının Ebeveyn Tutumlarına Göre İncelenmesi

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2018

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Bu çalışmanın amacı, baba katılımının, ebeveyn tutumlarına göre değişiklik gösterip göstermediğini incelemektir. Çalışmanın katılımcılarını İstanbul ve Kocaeli'nde okul öncesi dönemde çocuğu olan 303 baba oluşturmaktadır. Babaların yaş ortalaması 36.31'dir (Ss=4.72). Babalar, Aile Bilgi Formunu, Baba Katılım Ölçeği'ni (BAKÖ) ve Ebeveyn Tutum Ölçeği'ni (ETÖ) doldurmuştur. Çalışmadan elde edilen veriler SPSS 18 programı ile analiz edilmiştir. Analiz sonuçları, baba katılımının bazı boyutlarının, bazı ebeveyn tutumlarına göre değişiklik gösterdiğini ortaya koymuştur. Çalışmanın bulguları, literatürdeki diğer bulgular temelinde tartışılmıştır.

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Maternal employment and fatherhood: what influences paternal involvement in child-care work in Uganda?

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Engaging men to promote and support exclusive breastfeeding: a descriptive review of 28 projects in 20 low- and middle-income countries from 2003 to 2013

Engaging men to promote and support exclusive breastfeeding: a descriptive review of 28 projects in 20 low- and middle-income countries from 2003 to 2013

Can an egalitarian reform in the parental leave system reduce the motherhood labor penalty? Some evidence from Spain

Okul Öncesi Dönemdeki Baba Katılımının Ebeveyn Tutumlarına Göre İncelenmesi

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