Social Co-Responsibility For Care Work. The Contribution Of The Feminist Movement In Costa Rica

The article argues the social construction of gender in sexual division of work, and how this division assigns different values to different jobs. This debate has transcended Costa Rican institutions through co-responsibility for care work from two unresolved phenomena: the change in household composition and the entry of women into the labour market, situations that have created new conditions for women. Furthermore, the article addresses advances in legal and public policy matters, the role played by the feminist movement in the aim of extend the social co-responsibility for care work by all sectors of Costa Rican society and for the well-being of people.