Overview

• Approximately nine in ten women farmworkers lack social security and written contracts, according to the newly presented reports.
• Reported work accidents notified to IMSS rose from 6% in 2000 to 35% in 2024 as women face pesticide exposure, extreme heat and dehydration.
• IMSS field daycare has been cut roughly in half over the past decade—down from 13 centers in 2012 to 6 in 2024—along with a 37% budget reduction.
• Oversight is limited by only 660 federal labor inspectors for more than 456,000 registered workplaces, weakening compliance checks in the fields.
• Civil-society groups call for enforceable measures: real IMSS affiliation, an end to stopgap “pases,” gender-sensitive inspections, expanded childcare, and protocols against violence and discrimination, noting disproportionate impacts on indigenous women and high participation in states such as Oaxaca and Guerrero.