The recognition that women simultaneously perform multiple roles in society-as workers (economically productive role); as home-makers (consumer role); and as child-bearers and-rearers (reproductive role)-has been late and slow in coming. It is also undeniable that the reproductive period of women's lives is also the time they are likely to be most productive as workers, and most under pressure as home-makers. Hence, young women with young children are those who most need support, especially in their roles as mothers and home-makers, to enable them to fulfil their economic roles adequately, and also to enable them to participate in training and in civic and political life.