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Until now in Mexico, adultery constituted an offence punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment and the withdrawal of one’s civil rights for 6 years.
On March 24th 2011, the Mexican senators expressed their wish to repeal, via reform of the penal code, a misogynistic law infringing upon women’s dignity – this chauvinistic law was indeed mostly applied as a way to punish unfaithful women.
Associations for gender equality and the defense of women hold this to be “the dismissal of an offence historically constructed as a means to entrench the ownership of women by men”. This offence will therefore no longer exist in Mexico.
This action is thus the removal of a clause in the penal code considered to be no longer in phase with modern society.
