further research which has demonstrated just how important stimuli and content are for children s intellectual development and for overcoming or preventing disabilities has laid a solid foundation for an insistence upon having qualified caregivers and ensuring that working conditions are such as to ensure highquality care genderbased occupational segregation is the most obvious sign of the inequality and undervaluation surrounding caregiving as a remunerated activity policies need to be developed to combat this form of segregation along with systems for ensuring that women seeking to enter other occupations are not discriminated against