The Roles Of Gender Equality In Mexico

Gender equality is a topic in which people have been worrying and working about in this past few years. However, Gender equality in Mexico has a really long way to go, due to the stereotypes that people has been taught through generations and the different expectations that they have for the different genders. Unfortunately, even though there has been improvement discrimination to genders still exist in our society. The inferiority of the female gender and the superiority of the male gender causes the known “gender order”. Even though, every society has their own order based on their economy, religion, morals and ethics, and many other factors, most of the society have been organized by the gender order. This

The roles of gender are the behavior that people learn from the society at a specific time. The roles of gender determine which activities, labors, and responsibilities are considered for male and female. This role of gender depends on the race, ethnicity, age and religion. In the same way, the roles of gender are affected by factors like economy, technology, politics, etc. These roles are not static, they can be changed with time. When it comes to women, people expect form them to fulfil their reproductive role, and for man is expected to do their productive role. If a woman gets to be in the productive role it is expected for her to comply with her other roles. In the other hand, is is not expected from men to release different roles

The main reasons for these differences are that a considerable proportion of women work without payment; women have less time available for work due to the domestic work of the households that consume much of their time. This is because it is distributed unevenly with men; and the fact that there is wage discrimination based on gender for the same work. Now a days, 10.4% of women that work they do it without receiving a payment for their job, in the other hand, there are only 5% of men in this situation. Usually this kind of work, unpaid work, occur in business that are property of the family. One of the variables that influences the income of people is de age. When it comes to men, the older they are they get more opportunities to increase the income. For women, this is not always a tendency. Once they reach the 25 years is seems to be an stagnation in the possibilities of having more income. The gender of the person is also one of the variables that more influences have to the income. Women have 14% less income than men once you get to eliminate the other variables (same age, years of education, marital status, position in the structure of kinship, place of residence and same economic sector and occupational