QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

How are women treated among their own community?
Woman and man have the same right and obligation as man

What role do women play within their own community?
Nahuas speakers have 9.8 years of education on average and women 10.1, compared with the 13.6 and 14.1 years that are the national averages for men and women, respectively.

Are women considered important or less important within their community?
Woman and man are considered equal. Many women spend time in their house, not outside working. Women also take care of children.


Is there discrimination between from the society towards women?
There is no discrimination because man and woman are equal. But society think that women should stay at home taking care of the kids and making food


What is the typical life these women have? Be descriptive.
They work inside the houses and make food to sell. They also take care of animals and children. And some they give them home school

Articles 3,6,8,9,18,22,23,25,26,28,29,30 protect the women and they all state that violence is prohibit and that women have the right to speak up for themselves.

32.42% of women in Mexico have a pos-basic level of education which covers the first 9 years of school (from primary to middle school).

In Mexico 18’406,757 women work and 914,941 are unemployed.

Women in Mexico are payed 22.9% less than men. This means women are paid 77.1% of what men win as an average.

Women in Mexico are paid less than men so wages do differ.

How the most woman earn a living within the urban society?

The status of women in Mexico has changed significantly over time. In 1910, women made up 14% of the workforce, by 2008 they were 38%. Mexican women face discrimination and at times harassment from the men exercising machismo against them. [As of 2014, Mexico has the 16th highest rate of homicides committed against women in the world. This rate has been on the rise since 2007] By Human Rights Watch. Many women do not seek out legal redress after being victims of domestic violence and sexual assault because the severity of punishments for some sexual offenses contingent on the [chastity] of the victim and those who do report them are generally met with suspicion, apathy, and disrespect.

How the woman of the group treated? Give examples.
In School there get education same as boys. In family, most of them care they’re baby or kids and Adhere to the home

How do women contribute to the Mexican society?

Urban women in Mexico worked in factories, the earliest being the tobacco factories set up in major Mexican cities as part of the lucrative tobacco monopoly. Women ran a variety of enterprises in the colonial era, with the widows of elite businessmen continuing to run the family business. In the prehispanic and colonial periods, non-elite women were small-scale sellers in markets. In the late nineteenth century, as Mexico allowed foreign investment in industrial enterprises, women found increased opportunities for work outside the home. Women can now be seen working in factories, portable food carts, and owning their own business. “In 1910, women made up 14% of the workforce, by 2008 they were 38%”


What initiatives are being made by the government to protect specifically women of the indigenous group? Give examples.

Virtually no, the government does not to try to make protect specifically women of the indigenous group or protecting group for women. They need to fix that problem

What initiatives to help women are being made by local organizations? Give examples.

Maybe they are will be a small group for each town, but virtually it will that helpful for women. In the some town there are women's Support Policy that help women, but benefits are too little or sometime are none.

What percent of the group are women? Analyze this number and explain its significance.

The census of the year 2000 identified 101,759 speakers of this language (46 709 men and 55 80 women).

Do the women discriminate each other?

No they don’t.

What are the social norms that women are expected to follow?

Respect and help the people around them, their community, their government, etc.

What is the beauty standard for women?

A woman that wears normal Nahuas clothes, like a white dress with flower designs in it, long ear-rings, and red bows.