Mexico's parity push helps Female candidates score big in Elections

Norma Hernandez, candidate for mayor of Chilpancingo, and Evelyn Salgado, running for governor in the state of Guerrero, celebrate with supporters on Election Day, June 6. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

The new female governors ”are the latest evidence of Mexico’s progress toward “parity in everything,” a 2019 constitutional reform requiring gender balance for all elected and appointed posts in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches at the federal, state, and municipal level.” And although politics remains “an old boys club,” and other Southern + Central American Countries have similar mandates, “no country has implemented gender parity as thoroughly as Mexico.”

These electoral gains “send critical signals about women’s abilities to govern, even though hurdles remain for achieving gender parity.”

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