In November 2020, the Chamber of Deputies approved reforms to articles 4 and 73 of the Constitution regarding the care system, to establish joint responsibility between women and men.
In the document, which was sent to the Senate, it is cited that 90% of care, domestic and parenting tasks fall without pay on women.
Employment situation
The Coneval report shows that, in the first quarter of 2020, approximately 2.7 million people were working in the health sector, which is in the first line of care for the pandemic.
Of this number, 1.7 million are women, 63% of the population employed in this sector. “It highlights that the population that works in this sector has experienced a significant increase in the workload, as well as a greater exposure to the risk of contagion of COVID-19 and, of the total of this population, women represent almost two thirds” , highlights.
Meanwhile, the executive secretary of ECLAC pointed out that women represent 73.7% of workers in the health sector, but they do not earn the same as men: there is a salary difference of up to 24%.
In addition, in relation to the occupation of women who were engaged in paid domestic work, in 2020 this fell by 33.2% in Mexico.
“Paid domestic work, which is characterized by high precariousness and the impossibility of being carried out remotely, has been one of the sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis,” said Bárcena.
In this sense, she considered it urgent to reinforce employment policies and ensure women’s participation in the dynamic sectors of the economy “in decent working conditions.”
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