For social protection to be truly gender transformative, it must also seek to alleviate unpaid care activities, contribute to changing the dynamics of unpaid care and support work as well as promote a positive overarching discourse around care and support work. If care and support were integrated more fully within social protection provision as part of universal benefits, and not just linked to formal employment or poverty-targeting, it could contribute towards breaking down gender inequalities, adverse labour market incorporation, unequal income levels, and disability-based inequities.