Care work must be remunerated

By Heidi Osuna

Today, Silvia Federici's famous phrase, "what they call love is unpaid work", is still more than valid. This was demonstrated by the results of the first National Survey for the Care System (ENASIC) 2022, of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) presented last Tuesday, which provides statistical information mainly on the demand for care in households, the characteristics of caregivers and perceptions about types of care.

In Mexico, caregiving is a topic that has been gaining ground in public discussion, which means that it is no longer enough to speak only in terms of what we see or experience in our day-to-day lives, because it is very possible that we have a very similar answer to the following question: who is in charge of the responsibilities and care in your home while you are doing this reading? It turns out that caregiving tasks are an essential part of people's daily lives. In this sense, caregiving cuts across all of us, as at some point in our lives we all need care, care giving or paying for someone to care for our financial dependents.