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Although there is a significant amount of public care services in Mexico, a large part of care is provided through unpaid activities that are governed by patterns of solidarity within households, for which women are responsible, generating significant conditions of inequality.90 million people over the age of 12 perform domestic and care work in their homes without being paid. Of the total hours spent caring for household members, 71% are performed by women. The way in which the provision of care has been organized in Mexico has a more disadvantageous impact on the employment opportunities of women in families with fewer resources. Their options are reduced to informal jobs and underemployment. It is necessary to make effective the recognition of care as a right -the right to be cared for, to care for and to care for oneself-, as well as to promote a new institutional arrangement and to advance in the construction of care policies, centered on this right.