Year | President | Programs, Public Policy, National Events, changes in laws | Kind |
1896 | Porfirio Díaz | In Chiapas, the first elementary school for women is founded, in Chihuahua the industrial school for Young Girls was founded. The memories about the States relating the 19th century is created. | Social |
1916 | Venustiano Carranza | First Feminist Conference in Yucatan. | Sociopolitical |
1923 | Álvaro Obregón | First Feminist Conference of the Pan American Women’s league | Sociopolitical |
1925 | Plutarco Elías Calles | Chiapas recognizes the equality of political rights for men and women. | Legal |
1935 | Lázaro Cárdenas del Río | Creation of the Single Front for Women’s Rights 1935 | Social |
1937 | Lázaro Cárdenas | Recognize in front of the Law, women have the same rights as men as Mexican citizens. Initiative for the reform to article 34 in the Constitution. | Legal |
1946 | Miguel Alemán | The political rights of women to participate in the City elections are approved. Constitution Reform to Article 115. | Legal |
1959 | Miguel Alemán | The services of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) were extended to the workers’ families. | Socioeconomic |
1952 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez | Initiative of law to guarantee the political rights of women to vote and to be voted as well as the recognition as citizens without making the distinction between men and women. | Legal and political |
1953 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez | Rural Social Welfare Program. The goal was to have Pre-school; children’s breakfast bars; cutting, sewing, confection and arts and crafts lessons; cooking and food canning, as well as mother’s clubs for women to acquire knowledge of childcare and home finances.
Articles 34 and 115 in the Constitution are amended to guarantee the vote of women and their possibility to participate in an election. | Social
Legal |
1953 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez | Building centers in which women received practical lessons for the benefit of family members. | Social |
1958 | Adolfo López Mateos | The social security that Mexican women received was granted as a benefit to workers wives and daughters.
At the same time, the first election of a woman in a popular election position, as a Mayor was held. | Social
Political
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1959 | Adolfo López Mateos | Mothers with formal employment had access to day care centers for their children, only close to work centers where more than 50 women worked. | Socioeconomic |
1970 | Luis Echeverría Álvarez | Peasant women of the ejido (Common) were recognized as agrarian subjects and were given land to form industrial agricultural units | Socioeconomic |
1971 | Luis Echeverría Álvarez | An Agroindustry Units Program of for Women. The objective was that peasant women of the ejido (common) were recognized as agrarians and were given land to form industrial agricultural units in which they could achieve productive tasks for collective benefit. | Socioeconomic |
1974 | Luis Echeverría Álvarez | Women’s liberation movement. | Political |
1975 | Luis Echeverría Álvarez | First registry of women’s associations | Political |
1976 | Luis Echeverría Álvarez | Feminist women coalition. | Political |
1978 | José López Portillo y Pacheco | Family Planning Program, a program that benefited society but was aimed to homemakers. | Social |
1979 | José López Portillo y Pacheco | National Front for the liberation struggle | Political |
1980 | José López Portillo y Pacheco | National Program for the Integration of Women to Development, (PROMAN) | Social |
1981 | José López Portillo y Pacheco | First National Assembly for women | Social |