Olga Sánchez Cordero called to prevent setbacks in terms of gender parity in Mexico and asked whoever is entitled to do so to file an action of unconstitutionality against the Parity Law recently enacted in Nuevo León before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). .
“Now, we are already in a Legislature of gender parity in the Senate of the Republic. Yes, but we just had a publication in Nuevo León, a few days ago, that parity in Nuevo León is going backwards. We can not allow that”.
When participating in the virtual discussion “Breaking the glass ceiling: opportunities for girls and women”, organized by the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Senators, its president affirmed that the “attack” against women is “permanent”.
Unfortunately, she explained, she does not have the power to present the aforementioned appeal because the upper house is not a legitimate entity, so she asked the political parties, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) and the Federal Executive’s Legal Department to do so.
María de Jesús Saveche, municipal president of Santa Inés Yatzeche, Oaxaca, awarded for good governance practices, asked that all institutions “do their job and tour the communities” to teach women what their “rights” are in their mother tongue. , especially politicians because “machismo” continues to prevail in the country.
While Ana Cecilia Noguez, the first director of the UNAM Institute of Physics after 84 years of foundation and 11 directors, called for taking advantage of the opportunities to create affirmative actions that guarantee equality and security for women in a reasonable time.
For her part, Silvia Torres-Peimbert, winner of the 2007 National Science and Arts Prize, stated that the glass ceiling persists and has to be broken from the home, which is where roles are assigned forever and the power relationship is engraved in the brain. and subordination.