properly interpreted these data should also reveal the relationship between informal working and childcare likewise more general timeuse data need to be considered in public employment programmes ensuring that the policies needed to accommodate womens situation do not tend to reinforce gender roles and maintain the current distribution of time use in households furthermore these data should provide the state with the information it needs to encourage greater participation by men in care and parenting for example by means of paternity leave which is part of labour regulation policy employment is what gives access to social security in latin america and disadvantages women in the labour market because the time they spend on unpaid work also undermines their social security position the average economic value a housewife generates each month by her unpaid work should underpin such integration unescap