Author(s)

Nancy Guzmán-Raya¹, Martha Leticia Guevara-Sanginés², Ariadna Crisantema Martínez-Hernández²

¹Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
²Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.

In Mexico, the political and social rights of women have been acquired slowly and in a limited way; this is a sign of their invisibility. Some rights such as voting and running for election, education and work are all signs of progress. However, in practice, the visibility of Mexican women has been limited to their reproductive, family and domestic functions. This is reflected from the legal aspect—where constitutionally it has taken time to be recognized as citizens—to daily life, as their possibility of choice in educational opportunities, work and personal decisions such as motherhood. Through documentary review, a historical study of Mexican public policies and associated sociopolitical events is made, where it is observed that in each of the six years of the Government, women have taken steps to achieve this visibility, yet, conditions of inequality still continue from the conception of public policy to its implementation as government programs. They continue to highlight policies that target women in a role of mother and caregiver, and socially restrict their power in areas of public and private leadership that limit them in terms of work. Currently the feminine effort is directed to the change of social thought on the roles assigned in public policies through the acquisition of equity and justice.

Women, Work, Public Policy, Visibility of Women, Women’s Rights

Guzmán-Raya, N. , Guevara-Sanginés, M. and Martínez-Hernández, A. (2019) From Public Policy to Equity and the Constitution. Are Mexican Women Still Invisible?. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 7, 206-222. doi: 10.4236/jss.2019.76017.