Empowering Education for Mexican Women’s Finances: A Critical Review Analysis.

Abstract

Financial education and inclusion have been important topics for economic and social researches as an important base of theories and perspectives about economic increase and social development. This is fundamental for prosperity, equiality and justice understanding concepts in contemporany era. In this context, female rol in economic participation has been one of the bigest challenges to face for Latinamerica and Caribean financial education because of a notorius gender gap in all aspects: saving, credit acces, investmen, banking, etc. This fact is not only a reflection of countries’ difficulties in gender topics but a potential cause to aggravate it through the time.In the mexican case, although there are some progress in terms of goverment programs increasing and promotion of financial education for women, there isn’t material evidence of a deep improvement in equality nor proportional growth between educative offer and financial empowerment, even when theorically it exists. This article there will be a critical reveiw about studies relevant to the date in order, not onlty to recognize the current definitions, advances and challenges but also to do a critical propose with an aproach of female action with respect to mexican educative programs, the access to it, empowerment mechanisms and economic culture.