Unpaid care work and social norms: Gender, generation and change in northern Uganda
<p>There has been increasing interest in understanding care responsibilities in developing countries but there remains limited evidence on determinants of gendered participation in care. This thesis proposes social norms as an explanation for gender- and age-based differences in the time devot...
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| description | <p>There has been increasing interest in understanding care responsibilities in developing countries but there remains limited evidence on determinants of gendered participation in care. This thesis proposes social norms as an explanation for gender- and age-based differences in the time devoted to unpaid care work – including caring for people and domestic work. It investigates how social norms exert influence at different levels, why they are complied with and how they are contested and changing.</p>
<p>The research setting is northern Uganda, where researchers have observed socio-cultural changes resulting from a civil war, the rise of formal education, the increasing involvement of development agencies and new cultural and technological influences. I collected mixed-methods data from adults and children in this region between 2014 and 2019. </p>
<p>Building on theories of social norms, gender and childhood, this thesis argues that social norms dictate that females are supposed to do more unpaid care work than males, and boys more than men. I focus on three factors that shape whether individuals comply with, or deviate from, prevailing care-related norms. Individuals are more likely to deviate from these norms if (1) they are able to choose to deviate (agency); (2) they are aware of alternative options (awareness); and (3) if deviating is beneficial for them (advantage).</p>
<p>Some factors are reinforcing care-related norms in northern Uganda. However, shifts in agency, awareness and advantage suggest there is scope for change. It appears that care-related norms are changing subtly rather than radically. Whether these norms and the division of unpaid care work transform more fundamentally in the future will depend on the development of the region and remains to be explored in further research.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e4e6af10-d93c-412d-a8f1-6e42b33ea8802022-03-27T10:19:53ZUnpaid care work and social norms: Gender, generation and change in northern UgandaThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:e4e6af10-d93c-412d-a8f1-6e42b33ea880International DevelopmentEnglishHyrax Deposit2020Rost, LGollin, DCrivello, G<p>There has been increasing interest in understanding care responsibilities in developing countries but there remains limited evidence on determinants of gendered participation in care. This thesis proposes social norms as an explanation for gender- and age-based differences in the time devoted to unpaid care work – including caring for people and domestic work. It investigates how social norms exert influence at different levels, why they are complied with and how they are contested and changing.</p> <p>The research setting is northern Uganda, where researchers have observed socio-cultural changes resulting from a civil war, the rise of formal education, the increasing involvement of development agencies and new cultural and technological influences. I collected mixed-methods data from adults and children in this region between 2014 and 2019. </p> <p>Building on theories of social norms, gender and childhood, this thesis argues that social norms dictate that females are supposed to do more unpaid care work than males, and boys more than men. I focus on three factors that shape whether individuals comply with, or deviate from, prevailing care-related norms. Individuals are more likely to deviate from these norms if (1) they are able to choose to deviate (agency); (2) they are aware of alternative options (awareness); and (3) if deviating is beneficial for them (advantage).</p> <p>Some factors are reinforcing care-related norms in northern Uganda. However, shifts in agency, awareness and advantage suggest there is scope for change. It appears that care-related norms are changing subtly rather than radically. Whether these norms and the division of unpaid care work transform more fundamentally in the future will depend on the development of the region and remains to be explored in further research.</p> |
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| title | Unpaid care work and social norms: Gender, generation and change in northern Uganda |
| title_full | Unpaid care work and social norms: Gender, generation and change in northern Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Unpaid care work and social norms: Gender, generation and change in northern Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unpaid care work and social norms: Gender, generation and change in northern Uganda |
| title_short | Unpaid care work and social norms: Gender, generation and change in northern Uganda |
| title_sort | unpaid care work and social norms gender generation and change in northern uganda |
| topic | International Development |
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