And although women’s labour market participation is increasing among younger cohorts, long vesting periods will continue to limit women’s access to retirement benefits for some time if no adequate instruments exist to compensate for periods of time dedicated to unpaid work. This was common in the structural pension reforms in Latin America (Dion 2008). In Argentina, after contributory requirements to obtain a pension were increased to 30 years, coverage rates of the elderly population (aged 65 and over) declined from 86 to 73 per cent for men and from 73 to 65 per cent for women between 1994 and 2004 (Rofman et al.