Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance: a cross-sectional analysis of adolescents in 19 middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT: Excessive work among adolescents may compromise educational development. Without home appliances, household work can take over 50 h a week and an additional 30 h when an infant is present. School-aged girls are often tasked with doing laundry, which is time-consuming and inflexible without a washing machine. We determined the association between washing machine ownership and school attendance among adolescents ages 10-19 years in 19 middle-income countries between 2000 and 2021 (N = 1,622,514). We controlled for socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, all neighborhood-level factors, and examined differences by sex, age, household wealth, and period. No relationship between washing machine ownership and school attendance was found in most countries: However, there was a substa

SUBMITTER: Karlsson O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11870392 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature