MEXICO CITY.- This Thursday morning, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardoin his second press conference, presented his first bills in favor of women that would guarantee the “substantive equality” in the Constitutionalso aim to close the gender pay gap and force the murders of women to be investigated with a “gender perspective.”
“(I present) all the initiatives that we are sending today to the Senate of the Republic for constitutional reforms and laws for the support and protection of women. As the first president of Mexico, our obligation is to protect women,” declared the president.
The proposal contemplates modifying six articles of the Constitution and seven legal systems.
Substantive equality
The biggest reform is to establish in article 4 of the Constitution the “right to substantive equality” y “to a life free of violence”hence “all laws and all regulations” They must from now on “consider the particularities of women and their human rights,” explained the Mexican leader.
“What do we mean by substantive equality? One thing is the equality of men and women before the law and the other is also the special characteristics that women have, so that is why we talk about substantive equality because all women’s rights must also be addressed,” she highlighted.
These are the first reforms presented by Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, while the country faces a wave of sexist violence with an average of 10 women murdered a day.
Modifications to article 21 of the Constitution
Las modifications to article 21 of the Constitution will force security institutions to act with a gender perspectivewhile other reforms contemplate that all states in the country “must have prosecutors to investigate gender-based crimes.”
“This is a series of reforms that, for us, is a system of protection for women in rights and access to justice,” she stated. Citalli Hernandezholder of the Women’s Secretariat of the Government.
Eliminate the wage gap
In Mexico the gender pay gap implies that They receive 14% less salary on average than men for the same work, but in addition, less than half of women are in the labor market and 70% earn less than two minimum wages, according to the Mexican Institute of Competitiveness (IMCO).
Sheinbaum promised that the Constitution will now stipulate that “there is no wage gap between men and women.”
“Equal pay, equal work,” he stated.
For this and other purposes, you will also modify the General Law of Substantive Equalitythe Federal Labor Law and the Law on Workers at the Service of the Statedescribed Ernestina Godoy Ramoslegal advisor to the Presidency.
“We make a series of adjustments so that all women can truly have all the legal instruments to defend and enforce our rights. Today the president is going to sign the initiatives,” he indicated.
Total parity, violence and rights
The initiatives also require the gender parity in all the Federal Public Administration and in the cabinets in states and municipalities, added the Secretary of Women.
Protection measures for women against digital violence, known as Olympia Lawand laws that guarantee that the aggressor has to leave his home in cases of domestic violence.
Universal pensions for women aged 60 to 64
On the other hand, from 2026the Government will deliver universal pensions for women aged 60 to 64 as a recognition of their contribution to the care economy.
Also, the president announced that they are going to “distribute a women’s rights booklet to all Mexican women” so that they know what to do in cases of violence.
“In fact, it should also be for men, because men and women must know the rights of women, the human rights of women,” he indicated.— (With information from Pedro Pablo Cortes).
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