On average, women are spending up to eight hours daily on domestic and unpaid care work compared with just four hours that men spend, a new study by Oxfam-Uganda and Uganda Women’s Network (Uwonet) shows. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Unpaid care and domestic workloads that are often unevenly distributed is keeping Ugandan women in perpetual poverty across several generations, a new report notes.
On average, women are spending up to eight hours daily on domestic and unpaid care work compared with just four hours that men spend, the findings of the joint report, published by Oxfam-Uganda and Uganda Women’s Network (Uwonet) show.
