In order to co-responsibly distribute care work between the State, the business sector, civil society, communities and families, Morena senators They presented an initiative to issue the General Law on the National Care System.
The System will have a National Care Board that will be the governing body of the System and responsible for issuing recommendations to various authorities.
The aim is to establish an individual care programme in which the most appropriate intervention modalities will be determined for the needs of the person requiring care, according to their degree of dependency, from among the services and economic benefits provided, with participation, after consultation and, where appropriate, choice among the proposed alternatives.
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He said that this figure will create rules and also allocate a budget to a network that involves the State Government institutions in assisting dependent people such as children, the elderly and the sick; as well as legally recognizing the unpaid work of those who must act as caregivers, to open up new opportunities for personal growth.
The issue of care has also been considered a priority by the president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, who last June promised that during her administration the National Care System would become a reality and would immediately support the country’s female day laborers and maquila workers.
This initiative, proposed by Senators Martha Lucía Mícher Camarena, Minerva Citalli Hernández Mora, Ernestina Godoy Ramos and Senator on leave Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón, seeks to reduce the domestic and care burden that women have.
The explanatory statement states that the current structure of economic organization is based, among other things, on domestic work and care of the people who make up families; “and precisely Mexican society is based on them, which have traditionally been made invisible, because they are in charge of women. They are responsible for unpaid work, which generates an unequal distribution of power, which has repercussions on their access to the labor market, on differentiated incomes and on the impossibility of accessing important decision-making positions.”
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