“The Utopias are the first welfare model that does justice to women because here in the Utopias the Public Care System was installed.
“A system where we want to do justice to women, so that women do not have to come home to wash clothes, make meals or take care of the children, because they already have a public space that does it for free,” he said on August 30.
Together with the mayor of #IztapalapaRaúl Basulto Luviano, today we inaugurate the Utopia Huizachtepetl, located in the Cerro de la Estrella, which among other spaces includes a semi-Olympic pool, auditorium, multi-court, recreational plane, Public Garden Care System and… pic.twitter.com/6jFci5DuXZ
— Clara Brugada Molina (@ClaraBrugadaM)
October 1, 2024
There have been great social movements in the world, revolutions in our country, but the role of women has always remained there, untouched, as if that were not an object of change.
Clara Brugada, head of Government of CDMX
In Mexico, care work has a value of 7.2 trillion pesos, which represents 24.3% of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the Satellite Account of Unpaid Work of Households in Mexico 2022 carried out by the INEGI .
Women contribute 2.6 times more to their households with care work than men.
“The population that performed unpaid household work was mainly made up of women, with 52.8%. Men participated with 47.2%. When measuring this work in number of hours and economic value, women contributed almost three quarters of the total of this activity,” the INEGI study indicates.
Pending and challenges towards the Care System in CDMX
The main pending issue towards the construction of a Care System in the city is the absence of a law, since despite the right to care being recognized in the capital’s Constitution since 2017, the local Congress has not yet approved a legal framework to give it a basis. , says Royfid Torres, local deputy for the Citizen Movement.
“It is a system that not only requires a large budget. Care is transversal to many programs and institutions and above all to many realities that we must address in the city.
“That is why the law is important, because with it we can give content to the entire system,” he explains in an interview with Political Expansion.
Article 9 of the CDMX Constitution indicates that the authorities will establish a care system that provides universal, accessible, relevant, sufficient and quality public services, and develops public policies.
“The system will provide priority care to people in a situation of dependency due to illness, disability, life cycle, especially childhood and old age, and those who, on an unpaid basis, are in charge of their care,” it is indicated.
