Factors and Norms Influencing Unpaid Care Work: Household survey evidence from five rural communities in Colombia, Ethiopia, The Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

In order to address ‘heavy’ and ‘unequal’ care work and to raise the profile of care as a cross-cutting development issue, Oxfam and its partners implemented a baseline Household Care Survey (HCS) in five countries in which the WE-Care project was active. In November/December 2015, a revised version of the HCS was carried out in these same communities. As a follow-up survey, the 2015 HCS monitored change and impact from the project's interventions and gathered evidence on ‘what works’ to address care work in specific contexts. The aim is to generate evidence that helps local organizations address problematic aspects of care work, contributing to women’s ability to participate, lead and benefit from development initiatives. This evidence is then used to develop project interventions that recognize, reduce and redistribute existing unpaid care work within the household, the immediate community (civil society), the market (private sector) and the state authority (central and local governments). ISBN: 978-0-85598-834-

A narrow QRS complex during a left bundle branch block morphology wide QRS tachycardia: A clue for manifest or bystander involvement of nodofascicular pathway?

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Child Health and Relatives’ Employment in South Africa: The Gendered Effect Beyond Parents

This chapter assesses how children’s serious illness or disability affects the labour market participation of all adults living in a household. The chapter goes beyond the usual father–mother analyses and accounts for the context of developing countries characterised by an extended family structure. It uses the National Income Dynamics Study panel data and utilises fixed-effects logistic regressions and linear regressions for analysis. The results show that a child’s illness or disability significantly increases the employment odds of fathers while reducing those of mothers. These effects are even stronger among married parents. Non-parent males are more likely to work, while no significant effect is found on non-parent females. Child illness is associated, although not significantly, with the wider difference in the proportion of males and females working at the household level. This shows that there is an urgent need for policymakers to be concerned about families with ill or disabled children and to reduce the employment gender gap and make progress towards the fifth Sustainable Development Goal