they also thank marfa cristina alcantara felipe sterquino itaborai and especially diana le n for their rigorous and enthusiastic research assistance any error of assessment is the sole responsibility of the authors second women with income of their own are overrepresented among the selfemployed and in domestic work in the latter occupation three quarters of individuals almost all of them women had no pension provisions in ilo women in the labour market thus have less protection than their male peers in urban areas only of women have social security provision compared with of men iloundp third those who shoulder heavier care burdens have less social protection in latin american countries women with incomplete primary schooling have between and more children than those who have secondary schooling or more eclac p