Women in Mexico in the 19th - early 20th century

Book Review Working Women in Mexico During the Porfiriato: 1880 – 1910. Vivian M. Vallens. R&E Associates, 1978. 98 Pages. 92 pages read. From the beginning of time, females have been considered the inferior sex. They have been given titles such as, “fragile, delicate, weak…” beings when in fact women have proved that they are certainly equal as men, if not stronger. Child labor is one physical aspect of their strengths that women endure while others constitute taking over the …

…the emancipation of woman, one of the greatest steps that humanity has taken along the broad path of progress. We are now no longer in the error of believing that woman was made only for the home…and…family. No; our period of progress and that of struggle has opened a wide field where one can struggle for life, to improve her intellectual and moral power, which is not inferior to that of man. ENDNOTES