Spousal Wealth and Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare in Uganda
基于乌干达农村和城市各200对夫妻的调查数据，发现夫妻财富平等时父亲更愿意参与育儿，而财富差距会降低父亲参与度，建议政策提升女性经济地位并推动性别观念进步。
The redistribution of household work is considered essential for effectively empowering women. This study examines the extent to which fathers' evaluation of their wealth in relation to their wives' influences fathers' willingness to participate in childcare, a domain traditionally gender ascribed to wives. Data were gathered from a mothers' survey and a fathers' survey, each with a sample of 200, conducted in a rural and an urban district in Uganda in 2008. The study compares mean scores for perception and practice indices across three wealth categories: "wife is wealthier than husband, " "husband is wealthier than wife, " and "shared or equal wealth." Data show that fathers are more likely to engage in childcare when husbands and wives share or have equal wealth than when there are wealth differences between spouses. The results suggest that policy should focus on raising women's economic endowment as well as public education that encourages progressive perceptions of gender roles.