Survey finds evidence of gender variations regarding who is deemed a recipient of solidarity and who isn't.
The National Autonomous Mexican University (UNAM)'s Social Justice and Democracy Program, launched the 2021 National Survey on Political Culture in Mexico (ENCPD). This survey was born out of the need to generate instruments that allow the construction of new analytical frameworks to study the complexity and richness of political cultures in Mexico.
The ENCPD-2021 is structured in four thematic subsections:
- the commons
- democracy and participation
- social justice and welfare
- subaltern political cultures
By broadening the focus of study and the conception of democracy, ENCPD-2021 reveals that the majority of Mexican men and women are not individualists but gregarious; are not concerned only with their own interests but demand solidarity and equality with others; while rejecting the free market in favor of a regulatory state but empowered by communal forms of democracy.
Commentary by Dr Rosalba Icaza
Dr Rosalba Icaza, Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies, was invited to comment the ENCPD-2021. In her commentary she notes that the data shows important variations in relation to the care economy, especially when people who identified themselves as women report spending more time caring for others and the environment, in relation to people who identify as men.
For Rosalba, the survey indicates that there is a key gender overlap that questions the idea of ​​a strong Mexican solidarity culture. She notes that when gender intersects, there are variations regarding who is deemed a recipient of solidarity and who doesn’t in relation to the care of life.
Two ISS MA alumni, Gabriela Gallardo (SJP 2019) and Rene Ramirez (ECD 2005), were behind the whole national survey design and implementation.
