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The liberal Mexican Constitution of 1857 did not bar women from voting in Mexico or holding office, but election laws restricted the suffrage to males, and in practice, women did not participate nor demand a part in politics.
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Constitutionalist started to discuss women's rights. And the first woman (Hemilia Galindo) was o a political range.
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Madero's brief presidential term was tumultuous, and with no previous political experience, Madero was unable to forward the cause of women's suffrage.
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As women's suffrage made progress in Great Britain and the United States, in Mexico there was an echo. Carranza, who was elected president in 1916, called for a convention to draft a new Mexican Constitution that incorporated gains for particular groups, such as the industrial working class and the peasantry seeking land reform.
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The Constitution of 1917 did not explicitly empower women's access to the ballot.
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There was increased advocacy for women's rights in the late 1910s, with the founding of a new feminist magazine, Mujer Moderna, which ceased publication in 1919.
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In 1937, Mexican feminists challenged the wording of the Constitution concerning who is eligible for citizenship – the Constitution did not specify "men and women."
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The votes for women in Mexico were not granted until 1953.
