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Approximately 25% of Mexican women live in rural areas, and of that, only 44% of those use birth control, and their fertility rate, 4.7%, is almost twice that of urban women.” [82] Mexico was even able to incorporate a sexual education program in the schools to educate on contraception, but with many young girls living in rural areas, they ...
Pages in category "Mexican women's rights activists" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
It includes Mexican human rights activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Mexican women human rights activists" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Teenage pregnancy among Mexican women and girls has raised concern. According to official figures from 2021, the latest available, there were 147,279 births among adolescents between 15 and 19 ...
[82] 1923 also saw the formation of the Frente Unico Pro Derechos de la Mujer (FUPDM) (United Front for Women‟s Rights). By 1925, women in two other Mexican states, Chiapas and San Luis Potosí had also gained the right to vote. [83] Villa de Buentello organized the League of Iberian and Latin American Women to promote civil code reform in 1925.
Hijas de Cuauhtemoc was a revolutionary feminist organization founded in Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). [1] The organization was opposed to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and the imperialist economic policies during this period, which they felt exploited workers. Hijas de Cuauhtemoc engaged in many forms of ...
Mexican women did not win full voting rights until 1953, 33 years after the neighboring United States. Spurred on by the end of one-party rule in 2000 and international advances in women's rights ...
The Constitution of 1917 did not explicitly empower women's access to the ballot. In the northern Mexican state of Sonora, Mexican women pushed for more rights for women, including the vote. Emélida Carrillo and school teacher María de Jesús Váldez led the effort. Notably, the movement for Mexican women's rights there was linked to the ...