Labor Rights Awareness

- There are 40 women in formal jobs for every 100 men.

- Millions of women have informal jobs

- Unemployment is much likelier for women than men

- Promotions are a rare case 

- Minimal respect, dangerous work environment, mistreatment, labor rights are often ignored 

CAT - Centro de Apoyo al Trabajador Puebla

CFO - Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s

CACEH - Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar

These three organizations provide the information of workers labor rights and the employers working conditions. The location of these organizations take place in Mexico. 

Step # 1      Direct to Home

• Reaching out to the women outside of their work environment is more comforting. Usually CAT or CACEH will reach them out in public while at the park, schools, shopping centers, etc. It is more relaxing for women to be interviewed outside of the work place because they will not feel watched.

Step # 2      Fight for Your Rights

• After familiarizing yourself with organizations such as CAT, CFO, and CACEH now it is time to gather a group of people who can come together and discuss the importance of women's rights and how to fight for them, aware others in order to educate them.

Step # 3       Setting Labor Standards

• Improve working conditions for household workers
• "CACEH also acts as an advocate of labor reform, and seeks that Mexican regulations stipulate a professional salary scale, working hours, social security rights and accident protection for domestic workers."

Step # 4      Against Sexual Abuse

• "Sexual harassment is the most sensitive of the offenses women may decide to denounce, and it is all too frequent. “A majority of women suffered harassment at work, this is a problem nationwide,” says Velásquez. For women to get promoted or a salary raise, they are expected to offer a sexual favor, she says." (http://www.iadb.org/micamericas/section/detail.cfm?language=English&id=9133&sectionID=MNGER)