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Figure 5.1.1: Distribution of female and male population preparing food by duration Source: Calculations from the 2006 Tanzania TUS Who are the ‘overburdened’? As expected, almost all the overburdened (95 percent) are women and about 70 percent of them live in rural areas. However, it is urban females who are the most overrepresented among the overburdened (they constitute about 20 percent of the population engaged in food preparation but more than 27 percent of the overburdened). About 53 per cent of the overburdened are women belonging to households with monthly income lower than Tshs 50,000 (women with such income level represent about 42 percent of the total population engaged in food preparation). Women in households with average monthly income between Tshs 50,000 and Tshs 99,000 constitute about 26 percent of the overburdened and 20 percent of the total population preparing food, while women in richer households constitute about 17 percent of the overburdened and 13 percent of the population preparing food. 26
5.2. Other household maintenance Women tend to be more involved than men in other aspects of household maintenance as well, as shown in Table 5.2.1. About 86 percent of all adult women clean the house compared with only 42 percent of men, and spend on it an average of 37 minutes per day, compared with 21 minutes for men. Women’s involvement in chopping wood is also greater than men’s, in terms of both participation and duration. DIY is the only activity to have a higher male participation (21 percent of all men undertakes some DIY compared with 12 percent of all women, and spend on it about 51 minutes per day compared with 39 minutes for women). Table 5.2.1: Participation rate, mean time among participants and mean time among population by sex for adults Participation rates All Female Male Percentage (%) Cleaning house and care of clothes 65.3 86 42.2 Do it yourself 16.4 12 21.3 Chopping wood 17.6 25.5 9 Other 37.1 40.8 32.9 Mean among participants Absolute minutes per day Cleaning house and care of clothes 32.7 37.3 22.2 Do it yourself 46.3 38.9 50.9 Chopping wood 17.4 17.4 17.4 Other 16.8 16.9 18 Mean among population Cleaning house and care of clothes 21.3 32.0 9.4 Do it yourself 7.6 4.6 10.9 Chopping wood 3.1 4.4 1.6 Other 6.2 6.5 5.9 Source: Calculations from the 2006 Tanzania TUS Table 5.2.2 shows that the proportion of adult men devoting time to cleaning is considerably higher in urban areas while there are not significant differences between women’s patterns due to location. DIY activities are more frequent in rural areas, both for men and for women. 27
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