hi ksjstjja first despite certain variations between countries in the proportion of w omen employed in the care sector and other sectors in all cases the share in the former is at least double the latter second the overwhelming presence of women among paid care workers has changed little in the last decade in terms of the regional average and for individual countries see figure iii the proportion of women is higher among domestic workers in and in than among other care woikers and it is higher in education services and community and household services than in health services and respectively in compared with in