In a care strategy guided by equality, the State should ensure that access gaps are narrowed, build capacities to generate a broad supply of care and meet the care needs of large segments of the population in order to prevent vulnerabilities from growing. Moreover, beyond the direct provision of services, good care requires infrastructure, appropriate facilities and training for human resources with vaiying degrees of specialization that can become a new source of jobs. Among these are funding, coordinating and regulating a network of public, private and mixed providers of the services needed. Changes in the regulation of production and in labour organization are essential for putting men and women on an equal footing in the workplace and enabling them to combine productive activities w'ith care rights and obligations.