In Mozambique, social service provisioning relies heavily on women�s unpaid care work. So essential is the contribution of women, that the Labour Law of 2007 provides salaried women workers with 30 days of leave a year to take care of sick children. The limitation of this right to women however, sharpens the sexual division of labour, placing the burden of care squarely on women�s shoulders. This has constrained women�s opportunities in the labour market, as we struggle to juggle competing priorities, amidst employment discrimination and a generalised perception of our participation in wage-earning activities as complementary rather than essential to the household. While most Mozambicans�women and men alike�rely primarily on the informal economy to survive, employment statistics show that male heads of households are disproportionately employed in higher-wage occupations.