Gender studies, as a frontier perspective, corrode the naturalized ways of seeing objects acquired throughout disciplinary training, producing a different view on the objects usually considered and on the way of treating them. What is called into question with the gender perspective is the presumed pre-established harmony between division and vision of the world, thus putting the evidence in crisis.[19]​.

Estela Serret Bravo") and collaborators, define the gender perspective as “a point of view from which the different phenomena of reality (scientific, academic, social or political) are visualized, which takes into account the implications and effects of social power relations between genders (male and female, on one level, and men and women on another)” (p. 15); “[…] a feminist notion that has been generated to question the essentialist and fatal nature of subordination of women" (p. 54). The gender perspective serves, they point out, to "change the social perception and self-perception of the meaning of being a woman" (p. 53); to effectively resolve "the severe problems that at all levels of our social life derive from subordination" (p. 54), and thereby achieve gender equality (p. 151).

Another evident fact in our society, related to the Right to work, is segregation based on sex: women are preferentially accepted in jobs associated with roles traditionally assigned to the female sex, such as domestic work, among others. Joan W. Scott, Jill K. Conway and Susan C. Bourque in their article "The concept of gender" point out that this phenomenon is related to the vision of Talcott Parsons - which by the 1960s predominated in modern societies - where gender roles, to guarantee social functionality, were perfectly differentiated, on the one hand, the man's capacity for instrumental work - public, productive, or managerial - on the other, the woman's ability to manage the home and family.

Analytical-legal process that, based on the recognition of the existence of systemic inequalities between men and women that, for the most part, are perpetuated through gender stereotypes, establishes corrective mechanisms by virtue of which equitable solutions are adopted with the aim of achieving real equality.[20]​.

Mexico

The related legislation in Mexico is the General Law of Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence, National Development Plan "National Development Plan (Mexico)") from 2007 to 2012, National Program for Equal Opportunities and Non-Discrimination against Women 2009 to 2012.[3]​.

Two surveys carried out in Mexico in 2003 and 2006[21]​ revealed that, at that time, the women consulted depended on the opinion of their husbands to be able to carry out activities to which they were entitled, as citizens or as individuals. As a sample, 56% of those interviewed stated that "their husband or partner decided if they could work."

Gender equality strategies

In Mexico, "The United Nations Development Program (UNDP)" was presented, which proposed the Gender Equality strategy 2023-2025, focused on promoting the empowerment of women, being of utmost importance in a historically unequal country in terms of gender, which has translated into exorbitant levels of violence. In 2019, the UN, citing an official report, highlights that in Mexico 3,825 women were victims of feminicides.

The strategy proposes 5 essential points:[2].

1. Use a gender-based approach to examine office functions and organization.

2. From this examination, identify differences that turn into discrimination and gender disparities between men and women, both inside and outside the work environment.

3. Establish and communicate concrete measures at all institutional levels to reduce gender disparities and move towards gender equality.

4. Contribute to changing unequal relationships between genders and the structures that perpetuate inequality.

5. Reevaluate office priorities to effectively integrate gender equality into work practices.

Gender is the category of analysis that allows us to decipher the sociocultural order pre-configured on the basis of sex. That is, it analyzes the symbolic construction of the attributes assigned to people based on their sex, trying to investigate the physical, economic, social, psychological, erotic, legal, political and cultural characteristics defined, almost generically, when the subject is born.[12]​.

Gender, in a broad sense, refers to "the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a society considers appropriate for men and women"[13]​ and does not configure an ontology (theories about being) or an epistemology (theories of knowledge) of an individual, but rather the intellectual machinery with which things are perceived, attributing gender-laden meanings.

Thus, in summary, gender is a social construction and not a term intended to explain the separation of roles natural and inherent to the biological condition of the subjects - anatomical-physiological characteristics -, so the analogy or semantic synonymy "Synonymy (semantics)") between the terms "gender" and "sex" would be erroneous.[14]​[15]​[16]​[17]​[18]​.

Gender studies, as a frontier perspective, corrode the naturalized ways of seeing objects acquired throughout disciplinary training, producing a different view on the objects usually considered and on the way of treating them. What is called into question with the gender perspective is the presumed pre-established harmony between division and vision of the world, thus putting the evidence in crisis.[19]​.

Estela Serret Bravo") and collaborators, define the gender perspective as “a point of view from which the different phenomena of reality (scientific, academic, social or political) are visualized, which takes into account the implications and effects of social power relations between genders (male and female, on one level, and men and women on another)” (p. 15); “[…] a feminist notion that has been generated to question the essentialist and fatal nature of subordination of women" (p. 54). The gender perspective serves, they point out, to "change the social perception and self-perception of the meaning of being a woman" (p. 53); to effectively resolve "the severe problems that at all levels of our social life derive from subordination" (p. 54), and thereby achieve gender equality (p. 151).

Another evident fact in our society, related to the Right to work, is segregation based on sex: women are preferentially accepted in jobs associated with roles traditionally assigned to the female sex, such as domestic work, among others. Joan W. Scott, Jill K. Conway and Susan C. Bourque in their article "The concept of gender" point out that this phenomenon is related to the vision of Talcott Parsons - which by the 1960s predominated in modern societies - where gender roles, to guarantee social functionality, were perfectly differentiated, on the one hand, the man's capacity for instrumental work - public, productive, or managerial - on the other, the woman's ability to manage the home and family.

Analytical-legal process that, based on the recognition of the existence of systemic inequalities between men and women that, for the most part, are perpetuated through gender stereotypes, establishes corrective mechanisms by virtue of which equitable solutions are adopted with the aim of achieving real equality.[20]​.

Mexico

The related legislation in Mexico is the General Law of Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence, National Development Plan "National Development Plan (Mexico)") from 2007 to 2012, National Program for Equal Opportunities and Non-Discrimination against Women 2009 to 2012.[3]​.

Two surveys carried out in Mexico in 2003 and 2006[21]​ revealed that, at that time, the women consulted depended on the opinion of their husbands to be able to carry out activities to which they were entitled, as citizens or as individuals. As a sample, 56% of those interviewed stated that "their husband or partner decided if they could work."

Gender equality strategies

In Mexico, "The United Nations Development Program (UNDP)" was presented, which proposed the Gender Equality strategy 2023-2025, focused on promoting the empowerment of women, being of utmost importance in a historically unequal country in terms of gender, which has translated into exorbitant levels of violence. In 2019, the UN, citing an official report, highlights that in Mexico 3,825 women were victims of feminicides.

The strategy proposes 5 essential points:[2].

1. Use a gender-based approach to examine office functions and organization.

2. From this examination, identify differences that turn into discrimination and gender disparities between men and women, both inside and outside the work environment.

3. Establish and communicate concrete measures at all institutional levels to reduce gender disparities and move towards gender equality.

4. Contribute to changing unequal relationships between genders and the structures that perpetuate inequality.

5. Reevaluate office priorities to effectively integrate gender equality into work practices.