Mexican Women

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This paper discusses how, although Mexican women today have more opportunities than their mothers, and certainly, than their grandmothers did, they remain far less likely than men with comparable education, training, and skills to be able to get the kinds of rewarding jobs and careers that men have. It explores some of the problems that Mexican women face in the work force ,as well as the ways in which they meet those challenges, looking in particular at women in the news media as a representative example of the ways in which Mexican women are treated as professionals.

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"Mexican television news fails its viewers dramatically in this regard in no small part because of the ways in which larger cultural attitudes about women's role in society are reflected in and reinforced by the on-air personalities. Although it is especially in border towns like Mexicali, it is also true even in large cities like Mexico City that the worst gender stereotypes of both nations are often acted out on the air. One of the results of this is that what serious journalism is done within the realm of broadcast journalism is done by men. This relegation of women to reporting about scandals and gossip and other forms of "yellow journalism" not only degrades the quality of the news in terms of informing citizens about the important issues of the moment but it also lowers the status of women in Mexican society."

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