Abstract: This article focuses on how womenοΏ½s tasks in the household are shaped by the desire to manage the impressions and images they portray to οΏ½othersοΏ½. It is based on GoffmanοΏ½s perceptions of social life as a theatre in which people present their actions depending on a given definition of the situation. We look at how womenοΏ½s child bearing and rearing related tasks are shaped and influenced by the necessity to manage the impressions they make to οΏ½othersοΏ½ in their communities. Research was conducted in Western Uganda in 2000 using ethnographic techniques.