Brief legal, social and statistical analysis of employment discrimination gender-based in Mexico and the State of Chiapas

Abstract

This paper starts from a point of view general to the particular, or from the Federal to the State sphere, addresses the legal rules in recent years Mexico has impulse in order to promote and enforce gender equality and non-discrimination against women, in accordance with international agreements and conventions in which it participates. Significant progress has been achieved with the amendment of the Federal Constitution and the creation of legislation to protect life and liberty, and to recognize gender equality and non-discrimination against women. However a sector that continues unprotected is the working women, and the increase in the labor market has revealed a number of phenomena that makes necessary a reflection on the legal instruments that protect them. Despite the legal changes, in many cases employment discrimination against women continues, and living conditions of women in Mexico, and of course in the state of Chiapas, are seriously infringed, facing situations of exclusion, discrimination and lack of jobs with decent wages.