Cuando Victoria E. Rodríguez empezó a pensar sobre el papel de la mujeres en la política en México, no había nadie hablando a profundidad de la conversación, pero era el momento en que las cosas estaban cambiando a nivel mundial para reconocer el papel de éstas en la sociedad. Eso inicia una vida dedicada al estudio de este tema y la publicación de libros que son, hoy en día, de los pocos estudios que analizan las administraciones de presidentas, en qué lugar está México y Latinoamérica en el mundo en este tema y lo complicado que ha sido el proceso para las mujeres llegar a ocupar puestos públicos. A la luz de la llegada de la primera mujer a la silla presidencial en México, Claudia Sheinbaum, hoy hablamos con Victoria E. Rodríguez y sus libros Women's Participation In Mexican Political Life, Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics, Latin America's Women Presidents: Governance & Policymaking y sus colaboraciones con otras investigadoras. Es profesora emérita de la Universidad de Texas Austin y fue investigadora asociada en la Universidad de Cambridge y consultora del Banco Mundial.
Victoria E. Rodríguez académica y administradora, especializada en estudios de políticas públicas y estudios latinoamericanos. Ha tenido una notable carrera en la educación superior en los Estados Unidos, particularmente en la Universidad de Texas en Austin, es profesora emérita Ashbel Smith en la Escuela de Asuntos Públicos LBJ. Fue vicerrectora y decana de estudios de posgrado en UT Austin de 2002 a 2012. Antes de unirse a UT Austin en 1991, ocupó puestos docentes en la Universidad de California, San Diego y la Universidad de Texas ...
To date, the mainstream literature on Mexican politics has said little about women, even though their participation as formal political actors has increased dramatically in the past fifteen years. Somewhat surprisingly, the political participation of women, although well documented in other Latin American countries, has been neglected in the case of Mexico. Women's Participation in Mexican Political Life is a collection of thirteen original essays which pulls together the expertise of well-known Mexicanist, Latin Americanist, and gender scholars from Mexico, the U.S., and Europe. ...
Since the mid-1980s, a dramatic opening in Mexico's political and electoral processes, combined with the growth of a new civic culture, has created unprecedented opportunities for women and other previously repressed or ignored groups to participate in the political life of the nation. In this book, Victoria Rodríguez offers the first comprehensive analysis of how Mexican women have taken advantage of new opportunities to participate in the political process through elected and appointed office, nongovernmental organizations, and grassroots activism. Drawing on scores of interviews ...
The report analyzes the extent of women’s engagement in political activities in the executive branch of government throughout the Americas. The first part examines women’s political representation worldwide and sets the international context for the analysis of the Americas. The second part focuses on specific case studies of women who have held executive power in the Americas. The report concludes by pulling together the main findings of the individual case studies and assessing the common themes that emerge from our analysis.
The political landscape of Latin America changed dramatically during a remarkable period in time in the early 21st Century when four women occupied the presidencies of the three most important countries in South America and the most important one in Central America. All of them were the first women elected to the presidency in their respective countries, and together, from 2006 to 2018, they governed well over half of the population of that part of the Americas and presided over four countries that are widely
recognized as leaders in terms of economic power and political influence.
