How can It be a problem if you need them both? Women juggling paid and unpaid care work in Tanzania

The paper summarizes the findings of a mixed-method research that was carried out in Tanzania as part of the "Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs and Policies" research project (2015–17). It reflects the voic...

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Main Authors:	Zambelli, Elena, Roelen, Keetie, Hossain, Naomi, Chopra, Deepta, Musoke, Jenipher Twebaze
Format:	Working Paper
Sprog:	en_US
Udgivet:	Institute of Development Studies 2022
Fag:	Paid work Tanzania Unpaid care work Women’s economic empowerment
Online adgang:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15863

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spelling	10361-158632022-01-11T21:01:27Z How can It be a problem if you need them both? Women juggling paid and unpaid care work in Tanzania Zambelli, Elena Roelen, Keetie Hossain, Naomi Chopra, Deepta Musoke, Jenipher Twebaze Paid work Tanzania Unpaid care work Women’s economic empowerment The paper summarizes the findings of a mixed-method research that was carried out in Tanzania as part of the "Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs and Policies" research project (2015–17). It reflects the voices and experiences of women and their household members participating in Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) programs across four sites in the rural districts of Korogwe and Lushoto in Tanga region. Participants in two WEE programs are represented, namely the state-run Women Development Fund (WDF) and Oxfam’s Food Security for Tanzanian Farmers program. The question addressed by the research was: How can Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) policies and programs take unpaid care work into account in order to enable Women’s Economic Empowerment to be optimized, shared across families and sustained across generations? This study and its findings clearly indicate that women shoulder the majority of unpaid work and struggle to balance this with paid work responsibilities. While some tasks are shared with other household members, there is no evidence to suggest that women are in a position to redistribute unpaid care work responsibilities to the state, the market or the community. Reasons for this appear to be mainly grounded in gender norms, the lack of public provision of services that are essential for facilitating care as well as paid work, and the low returns on women’s (and men’s) paid work. This study highlights that if no explicit action is undertaken to support a re-balance—whether that is through addressing working conditions, childcare arrangements, social norms, values or otherwise—patterns of unbalance will reproduce and perpetuate themselves, offering women valuable economic opportunities that help to improve living conditions and possibly their position within household or community settings, but never stretching quite far enough to reduce drudgery and the physical and psychosocial stress of juggling too many responsibilities. 2022-01-11T05:32:39Z 2022-01-11T05:32:39Z 2017 2017-09 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15863 en_US https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/how-can-it-be-a-problem-if-you-need-them-both-women-juggling-paid-and-unpaid-care-work-in-tanzania/ application/pdf Institute of Development Studies
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spellingShingle	Paid work Tanzania Unpaid care work Women’s economic empowerment Zambelli, Elena Roelen, Keetie Hossain, Naomi Chopra, Deepta Musoke, Jenipher Twebaze How can It be a problem if you need them both? Women juggling paid and unpaid care work in Tanzania
description	The paper summarizes the findings of a mixed-method research that was carried out in Tanzania as part of the "Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work: Successes, Challenges and Lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs and Policies" research project (2015–17). It reflects the voices and experiences of women and their household members participating in Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) programs across four sites in the rural districts of Korogwe and Lushoto in Tanga region. Participants in two WEE programs are represented, namely the state-run Women Development Fund (WDF) and Oxfam’s Food Security for Tanzanian Farmers program. The question addressed by the research was: How can Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) policies and programs take unpaid care work into account in order to enable Women’s Economic Empowerment to be optimized, shared across families and sustained across generations? This study and its findings clearly indicate that women shoulder the majority of unpaid work and struggle to balance this with paid work responsibilities. While some tasks are shared with other household members, there is no evidence to suggest that women are in a position to redistribute unpaid care work responsibilities to the state, the market or the community. Reasons for this appear to be mainly grounded in gender norms, the lack of public provision of services that are essential for facilitating care as well as paid work, and the low returns on women’s (and men’s) paid work. This study highlights that if no explicit action is undertaken to support a re-balance—whether that is through addressing working conditions, childcare arrangements, social norms, values or otherwise—patterns of unbalance will reproduce and perpetuate themselves, offering women valuable economic opportunities that help to improve living conditions and possibly their position within household or community settings, but never stretching quite far enough to reduce drudgery and the physical and psychosocial stress of juggling too many responsibilities.
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