Important Women
Who was the first woman elected to a Mexican legislative body?
Elvia Carrillo Puerto.
What happens to most LGBTQ+ Women in Mexico?
Bullied, rejected, and kicked out of school.
Who fought for suffrage?
Upper class women.
How many Women marched in 2020?
80,000.
What feminist organization did Elvia become the founder of?
Rita Cetina Gutierrez League.
How many women are killed per day in Mexico?
Up to 10.
What were lower class women called?
Soldaderas.
What year were women granted full political rights?
1937.
Who is the current president of Mexico?
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
What literacy rate did indigenous women fall to?
75%
What were Soldaderas expected to do daily?
cooking, laundry, and ammunition carrying for male combatants
Which state first allowed women to vote?
Yucatan.
How did Frida Kahlo become a symbol of women's independence?
Her art represented taboos, wore masculine clothes, lived independently, fought beauty standards, and was openly bisexual.
Poverty, child miscarriage, and teen pregnancy.
What was the name of the massacre Soldaderas suffered from?
Pancho Villa's massacres.
Who said “Ni una mas, ni una menos.”
(Not one women more, not one women less)?
Susana Chavez
Clara Brugada created UTOPIAS. What does it stand for?
Units for Transformation and Organization for Inclusion and Social Harmony.
What is accountable for 1/4 of homicides in women?
Femicides.
What were the men's reasoning for denying women's rights?
Nature of women being unfit for carrying arms or participating in politics.
What happened October 17th 1953?
Women were granted full citizenship in the official journal.