Wanna be a good dad? A 'School for Men' teaches diapering, ponytail making

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/06/16/g-s1-4585/fathers-day-good-dad-school-for-men-diapering-ponytail-making

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Wanna be a good dad? A 'School for Men' teaches diapering, ponytail making

JUNE 16, 2024 7:19 AM ET
By Ben de la Cruz

At a one-day workshop run by the Care School for Men in Bogotá, Colombia, male medical students at Sanitas University learn how to cradle a baby. This class of participants consists of medical students, but the usual enrollees are dads of all types.



At a one-day workshop run by the Care School for Men in Bogotá, Colombia, male medical students at Sanitas University learn how to cradle a baby. This class of participants consists of medical students, but the usual enrollees are dads of all types.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — As class begins at Sanitas University, a cohort of young men gathers the supplies they'll need for the lesson: a plastic doll, rash ointment and diapers.

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At Bogotá's Care School for Men, an innovative city-led program, men learn how to tend to their families and homes and to step up to do their share of housework and child care — from changing a diaper to styling a ponytail. This latest class of participants consists of all medical students, but the usual enrollees are just ... dads.

The program, the first of its kind in Colombia, addresses one of the most lingering aspects of gender inequality globally. In countries around the world, women shoulder three-quarters of all unpaid caregiving, according to a report by the International Labour Organization.

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And in Bogotá, for instance, women on average spend five hours and 30 minutes [ Spanish pdf] on unpaid work a day — more than twice the time that men do, according to a 2017 study conducted by Colombia's national statistics agency. This unequal division of home labor reduces women's time for paid work, education and self-care and is driving higher rates of female poverty, according to a study published in the Journal of Global Health.

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[Wonder Why]

1. Back in the '70s, my fellow military classmate and his wife had the rest of us over at their place for an evening of

fun. One of the things was a diapering contest. We were the only ones without kids at that time but we won the contest. I guess for some of us, it was intuitive.