as with sequential policies these measures often revolve around mothers and female workers but as detailed below have increasingly begun to make men and fathers eligible as well in latin america iloundp these are regulatory policies on homebased care services the onetoone hiring of mostly female personnel for work in familial settings is an alternative to provision in institutional settings and has different implications for the state s role in measures that defamilialize or commercialize care since paid domestic work is not usually included in policies for reconciling paid work and family responsibilities paternity leaves came later and were created to encourage men to use parental leave