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Culture and Covid delay women’s advance in macho Mexico
Culture and Covid delay women’s advance in macho Mexico
They want jobs, support for caring and freedom from violence, but attitudes and coronavirus are slowing progress
World Economy News
8 Mar 2021
• 4 min read
When Tatiana Clouthier, Mexico’s new economy minister, was in her 20s and finishing her first civil service job, she found out that she was on the lowest salary of all her colleagues. “That was my first shock of understanding what it means to be a woman and to earn less,” she says, in a video interview with the FT.