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Gonzalez (pictured right,) a Mexican Women For A Better Future contributor, includes people nationwide in her investigations by convincing local governments to adopt women-oriented laws.
PHOTOGRAPH BY RIMI BAWA

Why this politician expert thinks diversity is so important for governments.


To activist and politician Xochitl Gonzalez, the government's uncharted topics are full of opportunities to engage women and indigenous people in politics.


BY Cesar Castanon Acuna
PUBLISHED 

MOST OF THE political spectrum in the current Mexican government system has yet to be roughly scrutinized. Even after decades of trying and fighting inequalities with thousands of voices and justified acts, women legislators have seen just a fraction of change in that time.

Xochitl Gonzalez discusses a transcendent opportunity to engage women and indigenous people in politics in those uncharted places. 

A Federal Deputy of the Mexican Congress of the Union and an expert on social justice, Gonzalez has been in each Mexican state and 902 communities since 2012. When she launched her initiative, there were a couple of women involved.

“If we want to go to face the whole country's patriarchal system, we not only need new public spaces and unique communities of people willing to fight for a real-estate equity but also safety to attend to said places,” Gonzalez states. 

Throughout her career, Xochitl has built several alliances between political parties to improve and encourage girls to use their voice in pro of real and secure democracy. Besides, her last—and more visionary—project, "The Girls Have Voice Too," is full of students and young activists that have developed innovative ways to make the unused spaces more approachable. (How involving young girls in politics can make a substantial difference in the long term for everyone around them.) 

New technologies and the immense increment on social movements have allowed Gonzalez and others to make significant parliamentary changes in recent months. "Without our newest social media technique, implemented by the indigenous communities, we wouldn't be able to approach thousands of future activists in such little time." In 2018 UNIL's students checking the transparency section of congress's website were the first to notice massive irregularities in every plenary session.

Those students found a perfect mistake necessary to launch their efforts on a nationwide scale. By devoting enough time to check every public paper—related to diversity and human rights—, hundreds of people can see how the past politicians made every blocking law on purpose.


This story was supported by a grant from the WomenTogetherWeCan Fellowship.
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