Carolina Gomez Mena
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 24, 2024, p. 9
The expenditures for equality between women and men in the Proposed Expenditure Budget of the Federation (PPEF) 2025 have 14 percent more resources compared to this year, since 479 thousand 94 million pesos are proposed. There are 59 billion pesos increase.
An official analysis establishes that in recent years, particularly since the previous six-year term headed by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the increases in expenditures for equality between women and men (Annex 13) have been progressive and considerable, since It went from 64,656 million pesos in 2019 to 419,434 million pesos this year.
While in the last year of Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration (2018) 47,918 million pesos were channeled into this area, by 2020 it exceeded 100 billion (103,517). The largest increase occurred between 2022 and 2023 when it rose more than 115 billion (from 233,732 to 348,362 million pesos.
The areas with the greatest amount of resources in Annex 13 in the PPEF 2025 are Welfare (branch 20), with 59 percent, education (branch 11) with 27 percent, territorial and urban agrarian development (branch 15) with 4.5 percent. . These three branches account for 90 percent of these expenditures.
In PPEF 2025, expenditures for equality (479 thousand 94 million pesos) represent 7.3 percent of programmable spending, the highest percentage recorded. This year it represented 6.5 percent, in 2023, 5.8 percent, in 2022, 4.3 percent, in 2021, 2.8 percent and in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, it represented 2.3 percent.
Annex 13 of the PPEF 2025 includes five new programs, and one changes its name, among them the Women’s Wellbeing Pension, established by the current administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, and which will benefit women between 60 and 64 years of age with a bimonthly support of three thousand pesos, and which will be operated from 2025 by the Ministry of Welfare.
Likewise, according to the analysis, a scheme changes its name and is the Rita Cetina Universal Basic Education Scholarship, which was previously called the Benito Juárez Basic Education Scholarship Program for Well-being, and which will depend on the Ministry of Public Education. Another program of new inclusion in expenditures for equality is that of Initial and Basic Community Education, also in the SEP and three others from the Federal Electricity Commission.
The document also indicates that five programs that until this year are considered in these expenditures, it is proposed that by 2025 they will not be in this section.
