Male | Female | ||
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Positive aspects | Negative aspects | Positive aspects | Negative aspects |
• Men more than women can be co-opted in maintenance that is beyond cleaning | • Limited role in child care which is primary household sanitation and hygiene | • Mainly take on child care which involves a lot of toilet training | • Lack resources for cleaning and maintenance |
• Willing to clean shared latrines for payment | • Cleaning of latrines and hygiene culturally seen as female roles | • Want to show their men that they are clean | |
• Think they are meant to deal with ‘out of home’ and ‘hard affairs’ and not the ‘soft’ aspects like sanitation | • Society thinks that women should mind domestic sanitation problems | ||
• Peer pressure is for outward standards than private standards such as household hygiene | • Tend to be more mindful of latrine status. | ||
•Peer pressure to sustain some hygiene standards works to keep latrines clean | |||
• Women most likely to discuss hygiene and sanitation since they stay home (social groups among women) |