All country’s poverty indicators are more alarming for women than for men, and even more for rural and indigenous women. For example, in their right to the education, where the school registration and literacy are respectively 19% and 15% smaller that those of the men

Social investment reduction such as health services contributes to increases in maternal mortality, adolescent pregnancy, HIV/AIDS risk and women’s work due their need to increase revenues. The health system evaluates women’s health beginning with their reproductive stage and not along all their life’s cycle; it measures women’s health prioritizing fecundity rates, maternal mortality, giving less importance to integral health indicators.

In the last three years, women’s murders have registered a considerable increase.  In accordance with the Interamerican Commission for Human Rights and Amnesty International, between 2001 and August 2004, 1,168 women were murdered. The victims vary:  housewives, students, professionals, domestic employees, workers, gang’s members or ex members and sex workers. The UN Special Reporter on Violence against Women reached the conclusion that the Government is not fulfilling its international obligations in the spheres of prevention, investigation and effective punishment of violence against women.  The Non Violence Network, integrated by women's organizations, works to make the problem visible within society and demands investigation and cases’ resolution.

The right to land in the context of the family practice has been almost denied to women.  Since the first legislation in 1952, it was only recognized in the case of the beneficiary's man death; recent studies show that 70% of the properties correspond to homes headed by mestizo and white men, 13.6% to indigenous men, and only 5% to women.  The official programs have only given between 8 and 11% land purchase credits to women with children.  In the case of men applicants’ wives, they don't participate in the grant process, preliminary studies, negotiation, final concession and very important, in the signature of property‘s title, although the law says that both spouses should sign it.