‘My Mother Does a Lot of Work’ : Women Balancing Paid and Unpaid Care Work in Tanzania

Zambelli, Elena and Roelen, Keetie and Hossain, Naomi and Chopra, Deepta and Musoke, Jenipher Twebaze (2017) ‘My Mother Does a Lot of Work’ : Women Balancing Paid and Unpaid Care Work in Tanzania. Working Paper. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton.

Abstract

Tanzanian women spend more time overall than men on unpaid care work activities, and less on cash-earning work. This report presents the findings of research conducted in Tanzania as part of the ‘Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges and lessons for women’s economic empowerment programmes and policies’ research project.