Various studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic confirm that the health crisis will widen the gender gap and deepen the global care crisis. The fact that schools closed and went online meant families (especially women in them) were responsible for their children’s regard of education, learning and support at school. A health policy measure that relied on traditional gender roles fostered the re-familiarisation of educational and care tasks that were normally assumed by the state or the market and added a work overload to women, who had to take charge of the provision of welfare in their families without being paid. Although this situation affected most women, not all of them experienced it in the same way. For migrant women, who are heads of single-parent families and/or precarious or informal workers, the intersection of gender, class and origin inequalities exacerbated the reproductive workload and the personal cost of incarcerating children in households. From this observation, the article seeks to consider the debate on moral and political reflection on the duty to care and the right to be taken care of; it emphasizes the role that the state and school have to construct a system of co-responsible care, as this is a matter concerning social and gender justice.