a) Equal pay to women and men for the same work; b) Promoting greater female participation in the labor force through training; c) Expanding public and free or subsidized day care centers so that women can increase their participation in the labor force; and d) Formalizing employment contracts for domestic-service employees. To overcome discrimination resulting from the system itself, other measures are required: a) Expanding EAP female coverage in Peru, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic where it is less than the 50% stated by the ILO minimum standard; b) Establishing the non-contributory regime in the Dominican Republic and expanding the coverage of older adult women for such pensions in El Salvador(coverage is 12% and 17% respectively in these two countries); c) Compulsorily incorporating domestic-service employees in El Salvador and Mexico, 111 as well as executing the legal coverage mandate in the rest of the countries following the successful practices of Uruguay and Costa Rica; d) Offering voluntary affiliation to domestic workers(housewives); e) Equalizing the retirement age for both men and women in Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, and Panama; f) Replacing sex-differentiated mortality tables with unisex tables in all coun ­tries(following the example of public systems such as Argentina and Bolivia and of the private system in El Salvador); g) Equalizing the disability and survivors’ premium for both men and women (as in Chile); h) Compensating women for the time they spend taking care of their chil­dren by granting them one year of contributions or a bonus for each child born alive(as in Bolivia, Uruguay, and Chile; and as stated by a re-reform 111 Those countries that have not ratified the 2011 ILO Convention on Domestic-Service Employees should do so. 214