Who cares for those who care? An approach to the issue of care from ahuman rights perspective

his paper addresses the problems that arise in relation to caregiving and those who areresponsible for carrying it out, i.e. women. Although this is not a new problem, it did become evidentafter confinement was decreed following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. One questionbecomes evident and refers to why women should be the ones in charge of care and all that this implies,as if there were a biological and/or moral inclination that conditions them to play a certain social role inboth the public and private spheres. It follows that there are countless inequalities that place women ina place of great vulnerability with respect to men, which makes it necessary to incorporate a human rights approach in the analysis. For a better understanding of the aforementioned problem, we willbriefly approach Carol Gilligan's theory of care, which also allows us to highlight the patriarchal logicthat prevails in the background.