as seen throughout this chapter the assignment of roles based on unequal power relationships and the unfair social organization of care have strong implications for gender inequality between men and women between women of different socioeconomic groups and between territories bidegain ponte in particular it underscores timeuse surveys as a key instrument for generating data that would serve as inputs for public policies aiming to significantly improve the measures adopted to guarantee womens right and autonomy eclac these data also serve as inputs to calculate the economic value of unpaid work and show that through domestic and care work women finance and sustain national economies and often subsidize limited social policies in this area bidegain ponte