For example, cash transfer programmes such as the Universal Child Allowance (Argentina), the former Chile Solidario (Chile), Universal Basic Pension (El Salvador) and Asignaciones Familiares-Plan Equidad (Uruguay) address the redistribution of unpaid care work from women to men. It not only provides day-care facilities during training sessions for single mothers but, more importantly, provides free preschool programmes with flexible hours to meet the needs of working mothers. Despite these features, however, some evaluations of Chile Solidario have shown that the preschool enrolment rate was low (4.6 per cent) because of a prevailing cultural perception that children are better cared for at home. That perception was cited in 90 per cent of the voluntarily reported reasons for non-enrolment. The effect is not only to empower women but also to enhance the ove ra 11 q ua I ity of I ife of the fa m i ly.