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Diaeta

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CHISARO, Lic. Florencia et al. “If I do not do it, no one does it”. Food choices and domestic work. A gender issue?. Diaeta [online]. 2020, vol.38, n.172, pp.14-25.  Epub 30-Mayo-2021. ISSN 1852-7337.

Introduction: this study presents a descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional analysis in a population of 93 women over 18 who have a remunerated job, live with their couple, have at least one child and live in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Objective: to describe the distribution of time devoted to unpaid domestic work and how this situation conditions household food choices.

Materials and method: systematic collection, analysis and assessment of data were carried out based on surveys and thorough interviews. Quantitative analysis was done using Pearson’s Chi square independence test, as well as qualitative analysis based on the Glaser and Straus theory.

Results: the distribution of time devoted to domestic tasks is higher in women than in men. There is no association between the time dedicated to remunerated work and the number of children the women surveyed have, since their variables are independent of each other. There was also no significant association between the average number of hours dedicated to women’s remunerated work and food choices (p>0.05). There is an association between the percentage of family economic income represented by the woman and the choice of head of household (p>0.05), so that as the economic income of the woman increases, she considers that she is part of the head of household.

Conclusions: the distribution of domestic tasks is a matter of gender. The role of the woman responds to a stereotype that is responsible for all of them, including food choices. The importance of the professionals in Nutrition upon this subject lies in the sociocultural conception of nutrition and their role as educators to avoid the repetition of these behaviors.

Palabras clave : gender; patriarchy; domestic work; food choice..

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