This could be because certain care job characteristics, in particular the w orking hours, allow workers to strike a balance between paid work and meeting the care needs of their families. This percentage is somewhat higher (71.3%) for domestic woikers —especially female domestic workers— and low'er (61.8%) for other care workers (see figure III. Furthermore, although the proportion of woikers living in households with children has declined across the board owing to changing fertility rates and population ageing throughout the region, the decreases have been more marked in the rest of the employed population than among care workers and less substantial among female domestic w orkers than among other w oikers in the care sector.