Emir Olivares and Arturo Sánchez
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, October 4, 2024, p. 9
Yesterday, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo sent to the Senate a series of reform initiatives to the Constitution and secondary laws to guarantee the rights of women, provide them with substantive equality, eradicate the wage gap and combat violence against them.
Yesterday morning, the president and some of her collaborators presented these proposals, which also include the classification of feminicide in all entities of the country, that the public security and justice authorities adjust their actions to the gender perspective and that there be gender parity in the federal and state public administration.
The initiatives propose modifying six articles of the Constitution (4, 21, 41, 73, 116 and 123), in addition to seven secondary regulations (the general laws for Equality between Men and Women, the National Public Security System, Access to Women to a Life Free of Violence, the national codes of Criminal Procedures and Civil and Family Procedures and the federal laws of Labor and Workers in the service of the State).
Accompanied by all the members of her cabinet, the head of the Executive placed special emphasis on the incorporation of the rights of substantive equality into article 4 of the Constitution, which has to do not only with the equality of women and men before the law, but also all laws and all provisions in our country have to consider the particularities of women and their human rights.
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The initiatives were also presented by the heads of the Legal Counsel of the Presidency, Ernestina Godoy, and of the Women’s Secretariat, Citlalli Hernández.
The changes to articles 21 and 116 propose, respectively, that the actions of the country’s public security and justice institutions adjust to the gender perspective. It is added that the prosecutor’s offices have specialized areas in gender-based crimes and that when a woman and her children are victims of family violence, they remain in the house and the aggressor is the one who has to leave.
Meanwhile, the modifications to article 41 raise the mandatory nature of joint cabinets both at the federation and at the state level. Article 123 will define the obligation for the State to eradicate the wage gap between men and women.
Sheinbaum Pardo also reported that an editorial board made up of women specialists on the subject is working on the preparation of the Women’s Rights Booklet.
