El cuidado en la trayectoria vital: rompiendo moldes con criterios de justicia y felicidad

Caring activities are part of our condition as human beings all our life, being a central point of the social organization to meet human basic needs. Nevertheless, despite of its relevance for human development and well-being, its social, economic and cultural implications has not been addressed sufficiently. There is also an unequal distribution of caring activities between men and women, being women who support almost in exclusivity the responsibility of caring. This fact has negative consequences on women (with the double day work, the glass ceiling phenomenon, the slave grandmother syndrome, etc.) but also on men (identity crisis in the presence of unemployment, at the arrival of the retirement, lack of emotional and affective realization, etc.). In this article the author proposes sharing the activities of caring between men and women not only according criteria based on justice and equity but also on felicity and self-realization. It will imply rearrangements on basic dimensions of social organization from a life-course perspective, like work and education system.