Despite being one of the main female occupations, domestic service represents, in Argentina, one of the most neglected, both in terms of working conditions and its regulatory framework. Domestic workers are one of the last categories that are incorporated in the institutions of social protection and labor law, through the Estatuto del Servicio Doméstico, enacted in 1956. There are, however, some previous regulations related to this occupation. The most important antecedent consists of a project presented by a legislator of the Peronist party, in September 1955. In this paper, we analyze the process of incorporation of paid domestic work within the labor law through the comparison of these two initiatives. The aim is to study some of the tensions originated by this regulation, which are crossed by more global issues concerning women's work, traditional female roles and gender and class relations.