One month to give them a first and last name
The scene on March 8 was different. There were no grandiloquent speeches in a traditional forum. Instead, President Claudia Sheinbaum decided that the first act of her series of recognitions for women would be with a sector that, in her own words, almost never receives the spotlight: the members of the Armed Forces.
“Why did we decide to go with the women of the Armed Forces? Well, it is a recognition. We are still going to recognize women doctors, women scientists, neighbors, indigenous people. And in general, women in the Armed Forces had never been recognized,”
expressed Sheinbaum during his morning conference.
The strategy behind the gesture
This is not an isolated act. It is the first move in a monthly strategy. March becomes the curtain where the federal government plans to highlight, week after week, the female faces that support the country from different trenches.
The president connected the gesture with a human reality. He spoke of silent sacrifices.
“They take care of us all and they also experience difficulties… they are always far away” from their families,
he said, after speaking with some soldiers after the initial event.
But the function does not end here. The script for the rest of the month includes new acts. Women doctors, scientists, neighbors and indigenous people are on the waiting list to take the stage of public recognition.
For Sheinbaum, this goes beyond simple media applause.
“I think that recognizing women in history, in the present and in the future is justice. And when there is justice there is a reduction in inequality,”
he stated, directly linking these tributes to his political project of combating discrimination.
The message is clear: each recognition is a piece in a larger puzzle. It is about making the invisible visible, about giving political weight to contributions that are often taken for granted. The month has just begun, and the billboard promises more chapters.
