Live more to be more than 2025/04/26

In a society like a Mexican, where more than 51 % of the population of women, it is incomprehensible that there are still barriers that limit our full participation in public, political and professional life. Today, it represents a historical milestone before and after: Claudia Shinbom She is the first woman to occupy the presidency, and Mexico joins the list of countries with a shared treasury. Decisive progress, undoubtedly. However, behind this progress, the structures that are based in age – discrimination by age – and in the gender stereotypes that affect millions of women, especially since the age of forty, are still standing. Society has imposed an authorization on the female body: youth, beauty and splitting. Women should look young, but not childish; Sensory, but not sexual; Professionals, but not ambitious. And if they dare to apply in dignity, without surgical operations or filters, they become uninterrupted or worse. As if the years mean loss of value.

Age as an obstacle

Age is clear in daily life, but in the workplace it acquires a dark dimension. According to INEGI data, employment opportunities for women that are largely more than 40 are decreased. Only when they reach their professional and emotional fullness, the system closes the doors. Worse, many companies do not consider women more than 45 years to hold leadership positions.

Is something change?

Age controls vision. Women like Yalitza AparicioWho challenged the laws of beauty and success; Blanca TrevioThe reference in technology; ShakiraWhich leads in 48 his most ambitious and successful tour Demi MooreThe most beautiful person in the world has been appointed to 62 years, and it appears that age does not take power, but it inflates it.

Also, journalists, writers, scholars, businessmen, medical, directors and academics who unite the expectations of a society that still refuses to see their strength. With their example, they know that maturity is not the end, but a new start.

Starting point

presidency Shinbum The symmetry cabinet is also not an access point, but it is a platform for rethinking the value of experience and knowledge. It is not enough to occupy positions: it is necessary to transform the rules that have been historically limited to us.

We need a culture that stops asking, “How old are you?” Like an overlapping threat. Because if we know more living with something, we can also be more: more free, wise and more capable. And above all, more clear. At the same time, the battle continues, for us, for our daughters and all those who come.