President Claudia Sheinbaum signs decree reforming secondary laws to protect women in Mexico / @Claudiashein @GobiernoMX >>>

#GobiernoDeMéxico.- The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, signed the decree reforming and adding various provisions in seven secondary laws, with the aim of promoting substantive equality, gender perspective, the right of women to a life free of violence and the eradication of the gender pay gap.

“These are four very important axes of these secondary laws that protect and strengthen girls and boys and women in our country, strengthen their rights. Today women in Mexico have a legal framework that supports them and now, it is up to us to make all this a reality in Mexico, and for the states to adhere to these great reforms for the protection of women (…)”.

“In the laws, today women in Mexico are protected. Perhaps we are one of the countries with the greatest progress in legislation for the protection and rights of women”, she pointed out during the morning conference: ‘Las mañaneras del pueblo’.

In this regard, the Secretary for Women, Citlalli Hernández Mora, explained that several provisions of seven laws were reformed and added:

General Law for Equality between Women and Men: articles 5, 9, 17, 26, 33 and 34 were modified to define the salary gap as the difference in salary remuneration, due to gender, in the performance of work of equal value. It establishes that the public policies of the Mexican State must be aimed at guaranteeing equality between women and men in all areas of daily life, and also deploys public policies to eradicate the gender wage gap and establishes a Certificate of Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination.

General Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence: Articles 1, 2, 5, 25 Bis, 27, 28, 30, 34 Bis, 34 Ter, 44, 46, 46 Bis, 47, 48, 49 and 50 were amended and Chapter VII was created. The law is considered to regulate Article 4, regarding the access of women and children to a life free of violence.

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