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Husbands in Wives’ Shoes: Changing Social Roles in Child Care among Cameroon’s Urban Residents

What factors explain the increased role of men in childcare?

G.M.B. Akash/Panos Pictures

Childcare has for a long time been the near exclusive responsibility of women and female house mates in Cameroon, and in other parts of Africa but contemporary urban challenges has forced these women and female house mates to engage in activities that limit their ability to fully devote time to child care especially in urban contexts. There is also a growing change in social attitudes among men that has led to a blurring of traditional gender roles.

 

As a result, some aspects of children’s care have devolved to husbands or fathers. This paper challenges existing orthodoxies regarding traditional gender roles by explaining new developments in child care among urban residents in Cameroon. The study explores the implications of these new gender roles for household development and the society in urban setting. This paper addresses these issues using historical, anthropological, psychological, and sociological methods and techniques of data collection and analysis.


Last updated Monday, May 13, 2013

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