This document analyzes the progress and challenges regarding shared responsibility for care in Latin America and the Caribbean, identifying key factors for effective access to these rights, particularly for women in informal or unpaid employment, as well as the inadequacy of public childcare and long-term care services.

Care work is a central dimension of social well-being, economic development, and gender equality. However, given the structural foundation of inequality based on the sexual division of labor and the unjust social organization of care, this work has historically been undervalued, made invisible, and assigned predominantly to women.

Care includes the activities and relationships that ensure human and social reproduction, the sustainability of life, and the well-being of people and the planet.

Understanding care work involves understanding the care economy beyond the limits of the market and considering both paid and unpaid work, which are essential for any other activity.

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