Comprehensive maternity protection refers to a set of entitlements that should be available to all working women during pregnancy, around the time of childbirth and while breastfeeding. We investigated the components of comprehensive maternity protection available and accessible to non-standard workers in the Western Cape, using domestic workers as a case study. The first phase of this research was a policy analysis of maternity protection available in South Africa, which we have described as fragmented, complicated, disorganised, dispersed, and lacking coherence.

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