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In the twentieth century, Mexican women made great strides towards a more equal legal and social status. In 1953 women in Mexico were granted the right to vote in national elections. Urban women in Mexico worked in factories, the earliest being the tobacco factories set up in major Mexican cities as part of the lucrative tobacco monopoly.
With a population of about 129 million in 2022, [4] Mexico is the 10th most populated country in the world.It is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world and the third-most populous country in the Americas after the United States and Brazil, [5] the most populous city in the country is the capital, Mexico City, with a population of 9.2 million and its metropolitan area is also the ...
As of 1995, women made up only 29% of Mexico's economically active population and 23% of the wage earning economically active population. [12] Since the 1990s, the number of women in the Mexican workforce has greatly increased while men's participation in the workforce has decreased. [ 13 ]
The Censo de Población y Vivienda (Population and Housing Census) is the main national population census for Mexico.It is compiled by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a decentralized agency of the Mexican Federal government, with the purpose of collating and reporting detailed demographic, socioeconomic and geographical data from across the nation, and is conducted ...
Indigenous women, despite comprising 15% of Mexico's population are overlooked in the discussion of femicide because of the factors that place them at a higher risk. 80% of Indigenous peoples in Mexico live below the poverty line, in states like Chiapas and Oaxaca, the southernmost region of Mexico where most of the Indigenous populations live ...
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In 1923 the First Feminist Congress of the Pan American League of Women was held in Mexico and demanded a wide range of political rights. [81] That same year the Primer Congreso Nacional de Mujeres (First National Women's Congress) in Mexico City was held from which two factions emerged. The radicals, who were part of workers unions and ...
According to data provided by the Guttmacher Institute, in 1996, Mexico had the lowest percentage of women in Latin America who underwent an abortion procedure, at 2.5%. [23] In 2009, Mexico's national abortion rate was at about 38 abortions per 1,000 for women between the ages of 15 and 44, at 3.8%.