Women Take to the Streets for Mexico City’s 8M March
The barricade was announced by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as a way to deter vandalism and violence from the protesters onto the National Palace
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Read moreMexico’s Women March in Protest on National Palace
By KELIN DILLON On International Women’s Day, Monday, March 8, over 20,000 of Mexico’s women marched throughout Mexico City in planned protests of violence nationwide against women, and the country’s high femicide rate of more than 10 women killed each day, reaching the National Palace, where they rallied against populist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for his apparent
Read moreAs Trump’s Wall Goes Down, AMLO’s Goes Up
By KELIN DILLON As U.S. President Joe Biden moves further away from his predecessor Donald Trump’s much talked-about plan for a wall on the Mexico-United States border, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) ironically put his own wall up on March 5 in front of Mexico City’s National Palace, the place López Obrador himself calls home. Last month, on
Read moreHistoric Number of Women in AMLO’s Cabinet
By KELIN DILLON For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered
Read moreNot That Kind of Feminist
By JENNIFER SCHNEIDER “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” Nelson Mandela. I am an advocate for gender equality. I am also a feminist. Believe it or not, those are not contradictory sentiments. I believe men have the right to be vulnerable, while women have the right to be powerful. The Merriam-Webster dictionary
Read moreDressing Women Athletes in a Market Guided by Men
By JULIA CASTILLO Nike shoes may not qualify as a global market failure, but how about it being a sport brands that doesn’t understand women? Last August, Nike released an ad in Mexico. The ad develops in a traffic jam, in which women grab what can be called “empowerment” and start running. This ad generated a lot of opinions, some of them in favor and some
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