Today, half of the country’s legislature is made up of women, compared with less than 30 percent of the U.S. Congress. The chief justice of the Mexican Supreme Court, the leaders of both houses ...

The United States has yet to elect a female president. Women hold 28 percent of seats in Congress — a U.S. record, but a dismal showing compared to much of the world. How dismal?

For years, women have made inroads into Mexican politics thanks to a 2019 constitutional reform requiring gender parity in all elected posts. Mexico elects a female president before the United ...

First lady Jill Biden was out front representing the United States in Mexico on Monday, ahead of meetings between President Joe Biden and the country’s president set to begin later in the evening.

(Mexico doesn’t rely on political appointments to the bench the way the United States does.) Parties had to nominate women as half their candidates in the 15 governors’ races this year.

The presidential election in the United States this year is, yet again, a contest between two men. But in Latin America, as Mexico’s milestone election showed over the weekend, electing a woman ...