Mexico City.- The silhouette of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is escorted by a dozen women, and together they head to a door where the Mexican flag can be seen. “Historic, we all arrived,” it is announced.
It is the cover of the UNAM Gazette, the information organ of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, whose edition this Monday, September 30, highlights the arrival of an academic who graduated from the institution to the Presidency.
La Gaceta UNAM recounts how in 200 years of independent life, Mexico had only had male leaders, and highlights that October 1, 2024 will remain a historic date when the glass ceiling in political matters is broken, which prevents women from accessing to senior management positions, in this case the Presidency of Mexico. “Why didn’t a woman become president 20 or 40 or 50 years ago? Because our society had very different structural, hierarchical, patriarchal characteristics, which have been somewhat diluted, not disappeared,” Fernando reflects. Vizcaíno, academic at the UNAM Social Research Institute.
La Gaceta UNAM points out how from 1824 to 2024 the nation has had 65 holders of the Executive Branch.
“That a woman reaches a government or a position of responsibility does not in itself guarantee a different exercise of power. But I would like to take the phrase women’s time in its plural sense because today we can feel with the right to demand a transversal perspective that illuminates purple, lilac, green public policies. “It is also a great pleasure that a scientist who is also a colleague, an academic, a researcher at this University reaches the Presidency,” says Guadalupe Valencia, from the Interdisciplinary Research Center. in Sciences and Humanities from UNAM. With Sheinbaum Pardo there are nine tenured people trained at UNAM. She will be the second with studies in physics and engineering. The first was Pascual Ortiz Rubio, indicates the university news. the 27th President in the world by joining those who currently hold office. “I make a respectful invitation to appoint president with an a,” closes the UNAM Gazette report released this Monday.
His Puma past
The next president was trained and served at the National University, a career that is highlighted today by the Gaceta UNAM 1977 Joined the CCH Sur 1986 Leader of the University Student Council 1987 Became a professor’s assistant 1989 Graduated from the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM, graduated as physics 1991 Master in Energy Engineering 1995 Doctor in Energy Engineering, after a stay at the University of California at Berkeley 2007 Member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize
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