Dora Villanueva
La Jornada newspaper
Wednesday, August 13, 2025, p. 13
Mexico is at the head in measurements on economic and labor machismo, compared to other main economies in Latin America and the Caribbean, which in turn is reflected in the relegated women in management positions of large companies, show data recovered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in a study.
The World Securities Survey More recent, and that the OECD recorded, reveals that two out of 10 people in Mexico affirmed that men are better executives exclusively for their gender, a perception that is reflected not only that men are a majority in the councils of administration of the companies, but that less than one percent of the large companies in the country are directed by a woman.
In turn, more than half of Mexicans said that the fact that a woman wins more than her husband will generate problems in homes. A proportion that scale is compared to also high numbers, such as 36 percent of Brazilians, 35 percent of Chileans, 26 percent of Peruvians, 18 percent of Argentines and 9 percent of Americans.
But it is not only about ensuring a slope, but that they have preference to enter the labor market, according to the data recorded in the Study on Commerce and Gender in Latin America of the OECD, whose findings were detailed on Tuesday afternoon, in a parallel act of the 16 Regional Conference on Women of Latin America and the Caribbean that takes place in Mexico.
According to the World Survey of Securities, 25 percent of Mexicans consulted – both women as men – considered that if there is job deficit, “men should be more entitled to a job than women.” Except Chile, where 18 percent of the population consulted agrees with this statement, and Peru, where it reaches 26, Mexico is above 5 percent of the Americans, 12 of the Argentines and 19 of the Brazilians.
This does not remain at the level of work, but that one in five Mexicans pointed out that it is more important for a man than for a woman to have university studies, which means twice as in the United States or Brazil.
The OECD report also points out that more than half of Mexicans and Brazilians consider that when mothers have a paid job, “their children suffer”, compared to 48 percent of Chileans, 44 of Peruvians and 20 of the Americans.
And beyond the perceptions or the duty to be reflected in the year, the truth is that they represent about 12 percent of the members of the councils of the companies in Mexico, well below 21 percent of Colombia, 35 of Canada, 32 of the United States and the average of the OECD, which is 30.
The organization also pointed out that 27 percent of national firms have no woman in their advice, a proportion that is reduced to 17 percent in Chile and 9 percent in Brazil. Even, the United States, now led by Donald Trump, of 593 companies in which the year was built, only one had an entirely masculine administration panel.
As a result, the spaces for them to direct large companies in Mexico is limited to multinationals. “Around one third of the subsidiaries of foreign companies are headed by women, compared to the low number (near one percent) of those led by Mexican companies,” reveals the publication.
