Persons with disabilities account for some 12% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean (see chapter V). For example, the "care crisis” comes at a point in history when paid wage work and unpaid domestic work are being rearranged while the rigid gender distribution of household work and gender segmentation of the labour market remain unchanged. The resulting asynchronies show that the traditional balance of care no longer works. It also brings up the need to challenge the activity-passivity dichotomy in the relationship between provider and subject.