in the five countries measures have been taken to extend maternity leave to the most vulnerable groups of workers broaden expectations of early childhood care and education services as a right for children and regulate paid domestic work these are very important measures for lowerincome women and thus positive from the point of view of public policymaking for socioeconomic equity over the long run from the point of view of the families hiring this type of labour such measures should also create the conditions to push the state to design better sequential and defamilializing measures