Marcelina Bautista worked as a domestic worker for 22 years, starting at the age of 14. In 2010 she founded the Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar, and in 2015 a national union of domestic workers.
In 2016 she told Expansión: “Luego dicen que somos casi de la familia. Las trabajadoras del hogar no queremos que nos adopten, queremos que respeten nuestros derechos” (Then they say that we are almost family. Domestic workers do not want to be adopted, we want our rights respected).
What she asks for is rights, not a place in the family.