The research objectives were to explore changing gender relations in the Ethiopian community in Toronto and patterns of adaptation to new roles, and to determine culturally appropriate preventive strategies to reduce marital conflict and ultimately, partner abuse. [...] The multidisciplinary research team consisted of staff and researchers from the Centre for Research in Women's Health (CRWH), Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre (SWCHSC), the Women's Mental Health Program of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the Culturally Sensitive Patient Care Initiative of the University Health Network (UHN) and the Ethiopian Association in To [...] Study Objectives The objectives of this study were: • To explore changing gender relations in the Ethiopian community in Toronto and the ways in which men and women adapt to their 'new' roles • To identify culturally appropriate preventive strategies to reduce marital conflict and ultimately, partner abuse IV. [...] And most of the house work was- not only most all the house responsibility was left for the wife including taking care of the children as well in terms of their health, their food, their cleanliness, their hygiene and so forth, all that was the duty of the wife (70-74 yr. [...] It has been like the work inside the kitchen is for the women and the outside work was for the men.