Activités économiques de la femme à Lomé : influences sur le rôle de mère et d’épouse

In Lomé, women today face numerous difficulties in reconciling their domestic role and their economic one. This communication uses data from the Survey on the family in Togo [Enquête sur la famille au Togo]" (2000) and from the survey on "Economic activities, resource sharing and the coverage of expenses within urban households [Activités économiques, partage des ressources et prise en charge des dépenses au sein des ménages urbains]" (2012) to establish the factors that explain these role conflicts experienced by these women. The variable to be explained is the ECO/DOM ratio (number of hours that women devote to economic activities versus the number that they devote to domestic tasks) and the principal explanatory variables are: individual characteristics, family environment variables, and economic environment variables. A statistical re-exploitation of the files from these surveys will be performed, and regression analyses used. The expected result is for the communication to make it possible to establish the link between the ECO/DOM ratio and the chosen explanatory variables. Furthermore, it will lead to suggestions to be addressed to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Women's Advancement concerning the infrastructure to be used to provide support in relation to women's increasingly massive entry onto the labor market.