It is important that, in the future, action to ensure equality should also include measures to empower women so that they may access positions of leadership (making them role models) and take part in decision making on equal footing with men. Mexico’s civil service should consider further policies and initiatives for enhancing the recmitment of women in sectors where they are underrepresented. Managerial positions in departments like the Navy, the Interior and Finance and Public Credit are male-dominated. As in the private sector, they are smaller among younger workers and wider at the upper end of the income distribution.