her intent was to emphasize womens increasing responsibility for maintaining their families wellbeing and womens lack of choice in doing so an apt reflection of the increasing share of reproductive and economic responsibilities borne by women in the low road case parallel to the high road regime the contributing factors of the low road regime are associated with the type of gender system that leads to a feminization of responsibility and obligation low wages for women as reflected in a large gender wage gap little support from men or the state in carrying out social reproduction and limited markets for care commodities that when they do exist are characterized by low pay and poor quality output table summarizes the main features of the low and high road supply regimes in this discussion we focus on caring for children but many of our points can be extended to caring for the elderly sick and disabled