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Born in the south of Mexico, she was raised in rebel Zapatista autonomous municipalities to later settle down in San Cristobal de las Casas where she cofounded ''La Casa de las Flores'', a non-profit dedicated to educate, feed and care for the marginalized children living on extreme poverty in the streets of her city. After graduating from Nursing school she enrolled in Biotechnology and Astrophysics.
Why The Biggest Financial Companies Are Failing At Gender Equality
Women make 43% of the working force and 57% of the university graduates, yet own less than 20% of the land and earn from 50% to 20% less than men in equal positions. The United States is a month away from celebrating the 54-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act signed by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program; however, the fact that places like Silicon Valley, leading source technology, startups, innovation and tech policy are not only failing to achieve equality but also facing one of the biggest sexism problems in the country, or titanic companies such as Google are being accused by America’s Department of Labour of paying female employees significantly less than male ones make us wonder what is there to celebrate and what can we do to improve a scenario that should have been fixed 54 years ago.
