Moreover, social welfare programmes targeting the individuals and households most at risk during the economic downturn have been created or expanded. This usually goes hand in hand with weak public care policies and programmes that provide scanty coverage and are fragmented and underfunded. The right to provide and receive care still depends mainly on the time and effort that women in the household can devote to it, on intcrgeneralional solidarity within families, and on individual ability to pay for care services. It also limits women’s options for entering the labour market (see figure 20).