Who represents women in Mexico? Critical actors in times of congressional gender parity

Fernanda Vidal Correa

doi:10.5354/0719-5338.2022.66666

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Who represents women in Mexico? Critical actors in times of congressional gender parity

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Fernanda Vidal Correa Universidad Panamericana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6633-2564

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5338.2022.66666

Abstract

There is no sufficient evidence regarding the relationship between descriptive and women’s substantive representation in the Mexican Congress. This research asks, what characteristics do lawmakers who promote the rights and interests of women share? Critical actors theory calls for research to emphasize agents over numbers. Thus, information about the identity of sponsoring deputies was studied for the LXIII and LXIV Congresses. Results show that individual actors, mostly female legislators, promote women’s representation. Some have seniority, but most have no experience as elected officials, nor as part of the Congressional leadership. This suggests that actors who have the political will to promote women's issues have the least power to do so, which, in turn, undermines the power of a critical mass.

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Congress, seniority, critical actors, descriptive representation, Mexico.

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Fernanda Vidal Correa, Universidad Panamericana

Profesora Investigadora de la Escuela de Comunicación de la Universidad Panamericana, Campus México, en donde desde 2017 se desempeña como Secretaria de Investigación. Doctora en Ciencia Política por el Departamento de Politics de la University of Sheffield. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores nivel I. Sus líneas de investigación incluyen: transformaciones contemporáneas del Estado, estudios de género con enfoque en políticas públicas y estudios legislativos, así como procesos político sociales a nivel internacional.

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Vidal Correa, F. (2022). Who represents women in Mexico? Critical actors in times of congressional gender parity. Política. Revista De Ciencia Política, 60(1), 35–55. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5338.2022.66666

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