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dc.contributor.authorAmpim, Gloria Abena
dc.contributor.authorHaukanes, Haldis
dc.contributor.authorBlystad, Astrid
dc.contributor.authorKpoor, Albert
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-17T07:22:34Z
dc.date.available2022-06-17T07:22:34Z
dc.date.created2022-06-03T11:10:00Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.issn1464-9934
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2999189
dc.description.abstractDrawing on qualitative research from rural and urban areas, this article contributes to evolving social research in Ghana on possible changes in the gendered distribution of domestic labour. Formulated within debates on ‘doing gender’ and ‘undoing gender’, this study examines the extent to which acts of gender transgression may potentially occur during peak reproductive periods in the lives of Ghanaian couples. The findings of the study indicate that the participants reiterated normative gendered definitions of men as primary providers and women as primary domestic caretakers. Nonetheless, it was noted that during their partner’s pregnancy, men in both urban and rural areas were willing to modify their daily schedule to incorporate more housework. Simultaneously, men’s involvement in all or most of the household chores was perceived as potentially dangerous to the gendered balance of labour in the family and could, according to the participants, stimulate laziness among female partners. Despite the apparent resistance to male performance of domestic chores, the article argues that men’s willingness to do housework during their partner’s pregnancy may be an early indicator of slow but steady transformations in gender relations in Ghana.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSageen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleI Do Not Want Her to be Doing Anything Stressful’: Men’s Involvement in Domestic Work during pregnancy in Ghanaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177%2F14649934221103913
dc.identifier.cristin2029321
dc.source.journalProgress in Development Studiesen_US
dc.identifier.citationProgress in Development Studies. 2022.en_US


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