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.