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

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