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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.
The non-Hispanic white women were more likely to report having had five or more sexual partners, but Latinas were more likely to report no more than two. Both non-Hispanic white women and Latinas showed a trend towards fewer children per household. In fact, second-generation Latinas were shown to have fewer children than non-Hispanic white ...
In some of their cultures, early marriage, as young as 13 or 14 prevailed; [143] in other cultures, derecho de pernada (right of the first night) allowed rape and abuse of women with impunity for their attackers, [144] while in others, organized violence against women had been used to both punish activism and send a message to their men that ...
Mexico ranks third among Latin American nations with the most women in the national Cabinet — 44% — and has 10 female governors among its 32 states. In some Indigenous villages, though, men ...
In Mexico, women make 65 pesos for every 100 pe ... announced a package of reforms on Thursday aimed at bolstering women's rights in a country with some of the world's highest levels of gender ...
There are over 20 million immigrant women residing in the United States. The American Immigration Council states that the majority of these immigrant women come from Mexico, meaning that most immigrant women in the U.S. are Latina. As the fastest growing minority group in America, Latinas are becoming primary influencers in education, economics ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Mexican This category exists only as a container for other categories of Mexican women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., the first Mexican American woman in Congress, has been recognized for her legislation helping children and families.