FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1. What is the name of this video research?
The Empty Room Experiment
2. What does Ghana statistical service say about woman pay?
Woman in Ghana paid 34.2% less as compared to men in the same job Line.
3. How many minutes in a day does men and women spend on unpaid care and domestic work in Ghana?
4. What is the problem statement?
A plethora of studies have been conducted on the impact of unpaid care and domestic work in relation to gender, inequality, gross domestic outputs, unsuccessful implementation of sustainable development goals, women’s physical and mental health, a girl child’s education, corporate women’s training and performance, less participation of women in politics, socioeconomic development and business development in recent years in both low-income and high-income economies.
Little has been done to recognise and address the influencers of unpaid care and domestic work in both low-income and high-income economies.
5. What is the centrality of this research?
- To identify the perception of guardians, parents, peers, religious leaders, cultural leaders, policy formulators, teachers and the public and significant bodies that have direct and indirect influence of the performance of unpaid care and domestic work by women and girls.
- To address the subjects that influence unpaid care and domestic work in Ghana.
- To identify the challenges faced by women and girls when there is a non-performance of unpaid care and domestic work.
6. What is unpaid care and domestic work?
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines unpaid care and domestic work as cleaning, cooking, washing, dressing and caring for children, getting energy like firewood, looking after the sick or disabled family members and collecting fuel or water.
7. Why the empty room experiment?
The empty room forms the psychological bedrock of this research. The concept of the empty room was chosen as a factor not influenced by pertaining settings. Specifically, a standard empty two-bedroom house shall be used for the first part of the video experiment studies.
Respondents shall be asked their opinion on the important household items that shall be used to fill up the rooms. This is to ascertain the influencers of items of priority versus non-prioritised items in a home setting.
8. Why video research?
- Video experiments research improves the credibility of the findings, allows other aspects to be studied through one medium than observations done by hand.
- Capturing much of the data on video also allowed refer to as retrospective analysis.
- Categorization of the data could similarly be developed more fully after viewing the videos and adopting and open minded stance, allowing the data itself to influence the design of a category system derived from analyzing it rather than being imposed on it.
9. What are the significance of the study?
- Primarily, to present the influences, dynamism, complexities of unpaid care and domestic work through the video experiment. The second part is to highlight the challenges faced by women and girls when there is a non-performance of unpaid care and domestic work, and the third part is to identify the perception of guardians.
- Assist policy formulators to address inequality, unpaid labor and domestic work in the formulation and implementation of social and economic policies.
- One of the key drivers of information determination among millennials, generation Z, generation Alpha and generation X is social media. The excerpts of the video experiment make it easy to be shared among different generations to improve collective social learning for positive socioeconomic social change.
10. who are the respondents of the empty room?
Male/Females, couples, different age brackets, different religious background, different lifestyle, different academic qualifications, different ethnicity, different family ties and income, different home and town settlements.
11. What is expected the output?
To showcase a documentary film of the influencers of unpaid care and domestic work in relation to;
- Hidden income for sustainable development
- Gender inequality
- Women’s physical and mental health
- A girl’s child education
- Women’s performance in occupation
- Less participation of women in politics
12. Where are the physical locations of the Empty rooms experiment?
Accra, Kumasi and Tamale
13. Is the empty room experiment accessible to people with special needs?
Yes
14. Which landmarks will be covered?
All 16 regions of Ghana
15. What is the value of unpaid care and domestic work?
The international Labour organization (ILO) evaluated that unpaid care and domestic work by countries are valued to be between 10% to 39% of the total gross domestic product
16. Where would the video be broadcasted?
International and local media, auditoriums, senior high schools, universities, community services and corporate and social trainings.
17. What other content shall be reviewed?
Radio, television signages online content, academic discourse, community discipline content and activities, such as cultural, religious, and state proceedings.
18. What approach did you adopt?
This research has adopted a research strategy that values unpaid work via the input method which counts hours work in unpaid productive activities and assign a price to it using a comparative wage rate, by the single market replacement cost method values that the services could be purchased in line with the labor loss of Ghana.
19. Who are the respondents For the field study?
Females of Domestic Work, Guardians (Parents), Religious Leaders, Traditional Leaders, Marriage Councilors, (Hospitals, Church, Mosque, Other), Teachers, Peers (Male), Abusua Panyin (Family Heads), Societal Groups, Opinion Leaders and the General Public.
20. How about your demographics?
The demographics encompass male, female age, religion, academic qualifications, ethnicity and culture, race, lifestyle, family structure and location.
21. How many people will you interview in a town?
One hundred and forty one (141)
22. How many towns will you conduct the interview?
Sixty six (66)