women s work both paid and unpaid is critical for the survival and security of the family and important route through which families escape from poverty it is also critical to women s empowerment expansion of national policies and programs to provide support for care of children people with disabilities and the elderly is an important intervention to enable women and men to participate equally in paid employment and women and family empowerment as well as reinforcing the role of the men in the family life to allow conciliation between professional and family responsibilities participation in national parliaments and local governmental bodies equality of opportunity in politics is a human right