the first time you become aware that
there could be something about the
motherhood that had an impact on
professional development was when a
boss who loved me a lot and who valued
my work told me in the middle a run
of hours in the office
you’re going to make an excellent lawyer if you do not
you fill up with children
the comment seemed absurd
ridiculous weird that might have to do
had no children or planning to have the
I was still 26 27 years old and the idea of
my mom had a lot to do with
personal development with the professional
as I imagined I develop my
life then I did not understand the comment
the neurons do not deteriorate and they
they contract and that seems the ability or the
knowledge of law with the
maternity
in fact a friend had had a son
in the office and nothing had changed in
work for the boy had
changed for his wife who left the
office where I worked for
engage in more flexible employment than
will allow you to make your life compatible
personal with his professional life
then the truth is that the comment
of my boss was not directed at me not
I was thinking about myself and my
aspirations in my ideas was
molded by an idea culturally
determined about what he knew
and experience showed that
indeed the arrival of a child of
a daughter has a transformative impact
in the time of women much more
here in the time of the males
that show us also with data
statistical surveys of the use of
time make use of time costs are
a statistical tool that already
have been used in almost 20 countries in america
Latin and the Caribbean that is shaped
periodical which consists of asking
a group of people surveyed women
and males
how was your day yesterday is a
exercise similar to thinking the agenda
of the day
yesterday as you will think and arm
a list of the actions of the
activities that they did yesterday and it is to that
statistical tool shows us the
very different use of time we do
women and men mainly
when we have responsibilities of
watch out
in Argentina the women with responsibility
with children we dedicate more than double
time that men with children to
care tasks and women who
we live as a couple
We also dedicate more hours to
care work that women who
they live in mono-maternal homes or that
are heads of household that means that
We take care not only of children and
daughters but we also dedicate hours
of care for adults who can
self provide yourself with that care then
what are the care tasks of care
of this set of actions that
they carry out mate daily and that
ensure the reproduction of society
care involves actions for the
attention the need for physics the
feeding the clothing the toilet and
emotional of the people who in
general is resolved inside of
the families is care includes then
direct actions to attend to the
children girls adults
elderly and people with diseases
and that the truth and all people
because in reality every day
We care needs
concentrate with greater strength it
concentrate more intensively in the
extremes of life childhood and
old age but throughout our life
we always have situations of
relative dependence that make
we need care
that’s what the use survey
of time they tell us that they devote more
time the women than in the males
tell us the surveys use of
time and also does not say it
everyday experience
then the care includes these
direct actions of care but
also the management of care when
we coordinate with someone to help us in
the delegation that
we have many care tasks because
we hire someone in our house or
because we do not delegate to the family
how many times we call by phone
please remove my son from school that
did not arrive
it is not true that also management of
be careful in the delegation we make
towards other people and also includes
the generation of preconditions
for care someone has to
take care of buying the food so that
Cook to buy the elements of
toilet for cleaning
someone has to take care of the transfer
of the people from home from here to
there and who deals with all that there
invisible hands that make all of that
happen that every day life goes on
spinning and that people have the
dress to go back to school so
go to work and to continue with the
life is not true
those invisible hands do these tasks
that we do not see that we do not look until
are made and that was one of the
appeals of unemployment of women of
last October 19, what happens if those
invisible hands stop passing
no task strategies are not performed
there we realize that there are many
the things that happen daily
modern studies call this
economy of caring for a theory that
shows that these invisible tasks
these invisible hands not only
they carry out activities but they generate
value has an economic value
this care work that the certain thing is
that because it’s usually done at
within families is resolved in
great extent to the interior of families
this work is not considered as such
but the truth is that these tasks that
has an important component of love and
affection of personal ties
they also demand time and effort
time and effort that is withdrawn from others
activities time and effort as the
works only that the jobs have
a retribution in money and this
unpaid work
when you go inside the face of
families is invisible is not
recognized now how can this
happen every day
why women carry out
these tasks in a greater way or
disproportionately greater than
the men
this idea rests in the
elasticity of women’s time and
the true jobs is that women
we have massively incorporated to the
world of employment although with many
disparities in terms of access and
rise and others as they heard ago
a while ago we women have
massively incorporated into the market of
employment without there having been a
redistribution equal in equal measure to the
interior of families at work
of care
this has an impact on life in the
development possibilities of the
aspirations of women but has
a greater impact on poor women
because women with fewer resources
economic interests have greater demands
care and have fewer resources
economic to solve that greater
demand for care with appeals to
market hiring people hiring
school transport with private medicine
that solves the medical shifts of a
more way sometimes simpler than
Public hospitals and others
so what do we need to do to
resolve these tensions in the
social organization of current care
what is unfair
both in terms of gender and in
socio-economic terms to address
these tensions
public policies are needed
broad and complex public policies
that we realize the enormous
branches that are involved
in the idea of care for example the
job
this one organized on the idea of
man supplier the male supplier and
the woman taking care of the times of
I work the demands of the day
labor the licenses if well organized
about the idea that the worker or the
worker can dedicate 100 percent
of your time and your necessary energy
for work because someone is
will take care of the problems
relatives the resolutions of the subjects
of care
that presumption rest
a family ideal that no longer exists in
a family model that is no longer
women also have jobs the
families are diverse
marriages dissolve
families are assembled and then
think about appealing to the idea that the male
providers the woman carer no longer
responds to the reality of many
families in Argentina and in the world there are
several actions that are taking
go ahead to start thinking about
care policies one more way
integral and license reforms
that without being important
think about maternity leave with
other criteria extend the license of
parenthood incorporate licenses
parental
they are important initiatives but not
enough because we know that the
responsibility is of care they exceed in
much the biological moment of
birth or the time of adoption
the responsibility is for care so
less regarding sons and daughters
extend I do not know until I’m 18 and
when we finished taking care down
we started to look up also
we have responsibilities and we want
take care responsibilities
respect to older adults and others
people in the families then the
jobs when they think about licenses
and the reforms that are concentrated
in the licenses you also have to
think that the responsibilities of
care is much wider
when my boss told me at that time
20 years ago
this comment that I found absurd
the truth is that he was not wrong
The truth is that his comment was
molded into a culture that told him and
that he was certain that I
would have as a woman much greater demand
of care time I had had
my male partner was right
experience showed him that that was
A) Yes
then the challenge is to think the
care responsibilities for
families in a way that recognizes
this complex framework that involves no
only the inside of the families and
the need to democratize work
of care to
inside of families but that
also recognize the value and
need to have institutions
receptive to family needs
thinking about the in the days of
work in which the days
school children in the times of the centers
of health the times and forms of
transfer impacting so very
important in families but also
The challenge is to rethink the
Shared care responsibilities
between women and men
the challenge the interesting the ideal
it would be that we can share the time
the effort the anguish but also
the enormous satisfaction that follows from
share care equitably
between men and women
Thank you
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