Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda
Editor(s)
Sweetman, CarolinePublication date
2014-11-10Keywords
Gender mainstreamingCaregiving
Engaging men
Household gender dynamics
Maternal and child health
Gender and Development Journal
GaD
Country
Rwanda
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Gender & DevelopmentDocument type
Journal articleLanguage
EnglishDescription
This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in these groups on men’s participation in care work.The results confirm the importance for practitioners’ planning strategies to engage fathers to think beyond men’s token participation in care work, to use father participation as an entry point to truly transform gender dynamics within the home. The article provides practical lessons learnt to guide other organisations interested in working with men to transform norms around fatherhood and care work. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the <a href="http://www.genderanddevelopment.org">Gender and Development</a> website.Pages
16ISSN
1355-2074EISSN
1364-9221ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/13552074.2014.963326