“Just imagine having a female president in a country as macho as Mexico!” said Maria del Carmen Garcia, 70, a secretary who said women’s pay needs to catch up with men’s. Victory for Sheinbaum or Galvez would make them the first woman to win a general election in the United States, Mexico or Canada. Mexican women did not win full voting rights until 1953, 33 years after the neighboring United States. Today, Vazquez Mota said, her PAN ally Galvez no longer had to respond to whether Mexico was ready for a female president. The Mexico Como Vamos think tank reported in May that for every 100 men in working poverty, there were 112 women.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 10, 2023 13:22 UTC