Cultural Influences in Women-Friendly Labor-Saving Hand Tool Designs: The Milk Churner Case.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to highlight the importance of culture in sustainable, labor-saving solutions design for women in low-resource settings.

Background

One of the reasons behind the gender asset gap among Sub-Saharan African women is the higher labor burden these women face, making it difficult for them to produce for the home and markets. Hand tools are the simplest form and therefore the best first step to address this problem. But designing women-friendly (sustainable) hand tools calls for better understanding of the low-resource settings where these women reside.

Method

A milk churner was redesigned using a human-centered (participatory) approach with groups of women from two dominant ethnolinguistic groups of Bantu and Nilotic of Uganda, and its u

SUBMITTER: Kisaalita WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4768704 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature