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Women won big in Mexico’s elections — taking nearly half the legislature’s seats. Here’s why.

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July 11, 2018

Women won big in Mexico’s elections — taking nearly half the legislature’s seats. Here’s why.

July 10, 2018
Mexican Parliament achieves gender parity

Last Sunday’s elections in Mexico resulted in gender parity in the Parliament: with almost all the results counted, there are 246 women (48.6%) and 254 men (51.2%) in the Chamber of Deputies and 65 women (50.78%) and 63 men (49.22%) in the Senate.

July 2, 2018
Mexico city: Claudia Sheinbaum to become first elected woman mayor, succeeding Obrador

The 56-year-old had served as environmental secretary under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador when he was mayor.

June 6, 2017
Indigenous Woman Will Run For Mexican Presidential Elections

MEXICO CITY — Mexico will hold

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May 23, 2014
Making the invisible visible

When Marcelina Bautista Bautista left her indigenous Mixtec community in Nochtixtlan, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, at the age of 14 with only a primary school education and no knowledge of Spanish, she didn’t dream that one day she would end up contributing to the development of an internation

The Associated Press
September 3, 2024
Mexico finds the devil is in the details with laws against gender-based attacks on women politicians

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a U.S. electoral campaign punctuated by jibes about “childless cat ladies,” some might wish there were rules against mocking candidates based on their gender.

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4311: Mexico, 02/06/2024, Mexican Presidency 2024

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Quota Information Parliament Information
Are there legislated quotas? Yes Structure of parliament Unicameral
For the Single/Lower House? YesCurrent members 500
  Percentage of women 50.00%
Source: Gender Quotas Database Source: New Parline
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