By Jan Chaiken and Marcia Chaiken

Mexican women attained the right to vote much later than their counterparts in the US and Canada. Women in Mexico were granted both the right to vote in national elections and the right to run for national office in 1953. For most readers from the US, the 19th.amendment to the constitution (ratified in 1920), which prohibited discrimination by sex in the right to vote in federal and state elections, must seem like ancient history. But many of our Mexican friends clearly remember the first time the women in their families could vote in national elections. Continue reading Suffrage in Mexico →