the burden of unpaid work which is culturally assigned to women hinders their access to the labour market and generation of their own income and is worse in households with children under the age of five the households in the lowestincome deciles have the highest number of dependents who require a greater amount of time for care and have the greatest need of income eclac a moreover women in poor households are unable to acquire goods and services on the market that could save them time on domestic and care work