moreover care services that do not include quality standards for employment in this sector mostly undertaken by women in latin america consolidate the job insecurity and social vulnerability from which they suffer other examples include the regulatory instruments of the labour market which can simultaneously perform functions such as employment social protection and care policies such as those that establish a minimum wage or maximum working hours eclac b moreover the mechanisms of pension recognition for female caregivers could include the set of noncontributory social pensions that mainly benefit women in the region in other cases programmes that are on the border between employment and social protection policies could take account of the specific vulnerability faced by unpaid caregivers