Table 3.
Household tasks done by only men, only women, or both in control and intervention households
Household task | Only women (%) |
Only men (%) |
Both (%) |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | Control | Intervention | |
Work in machamba/field | 15 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 83 | 85 |
Prepare meals for family | 75 | 43 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 25 | 56 |
Make blocks | 2 | 1 | 39 | 26 | 59 | 73 |
Work outside for money | 5 | 3 | 53 | 34 | 42 | 63 |
Bathe children | 71 | 32 | 0.5 | 1 | 28 | 67 |
Do the dishes | 75 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 57 |
Cut wood/burn charcoal | 29 | 12 | 19 | 20 | 51 | 67 |
Fetch water for household | 69 | 37 | 0.2 | 2 | 31 | 61 |
Maintain/fix house structure | 20 | 9 | 20 | 20 | 59 | 71 |
Do laundry | 69 | 40 | 1 | 0.6 | 30 | 60 |
Clean house | 64 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 67 |
Mean number of shared household tasks | 4.5 | 7 |
Note. N = 915. All differences between the intervention and the control groups were statistically significant (p < .05) except for the first task listed (work in machamba/field). Bold font highlights those chores that are traditionally done by women and that showed a more than double difference between intervention and control.