Breathe
By Martha Herrera
Let us make care work visible and discuss it in the public debate. Worldwide, 76.2% of the time dedicated to unpaid care work is performed by women. In the region, the difference between unpaid work time spent by women with and without their own income varies between 3 and 11 hours more than men, on a weekly basis. And in our country, the time that women dedicate to caring for household members who are dependent due to disability or chronic illness is 12.6 hours per week.
In this sense, giving centrality to care becomes an essential element in the construction of an alternative model of society, whose aim and center is to transform the power relations that are at the basis of the sexual division of labor, promote the sustainability of life, put an end to the culture of privilege and guarantee the economic, physical and political autonomy of women, understood as our capacity to make free and informed decisions about our lives, so that we can be and do according to our own aspirations and desires, in the historical context that makes them possible.
