means of upholding the equality of men and women nondiscrimination nonsegregation and the coresponsibility of society for the provision of care should be more fully incorporated into regulatory frameworks and in government oversight procedures as well as into the agendas of workers organizations while the values transmitted by gender inequalities in the reproductive sphere cannot be measured using the information currently available an analysis of the visible portions of the economy suffices to show that reproductive matters have an influence on the economic labour regime that this regime in its turn has an impact on the wider economy this type of observation becomes possible when the labour supply is seen as the nexus between the mercantile economy and the household and as the result of a process of conflict between the two that also generates additions to the labour force