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The Roles of Women in the Mexican Revolution of 1910

...... In March 1924, Rosa Torre Gonzalez proudly wrote of her experiences as a solderada when she was elected representative to the city council of Merida, Yucatan. She thus became the first woman to achieve this councilmans level, when women could not even vote. She had also been one of the first women to rise up against Diaz. In her political positions, Gonzalez worked to gain equal rights and opportunities for women. She put her efforts toward censuring immoral movies, regulating the municipal department of health and hygiene, developing educational and social welfare projects and cooperating with teachers to ensure childrens school attendance to organize literacy campaigns and create new childrens parks
Jimnez y Muro Muro wrote articles and poems for a variety of magazines under an alias and was an editorial staff member of the feminist journal La Mujer Mexicana. She was also a leader in the Liga Feminina Anti-reelectionista "Josefa Ortiz de Domnguez" and president of the Hijas de Cuauhtmoc, which were groups that were actively anti-Daz. The Hijas manifesto called for political support of Mexican women in their "economic, physical, intellectual and moral struggles."[8] While imprisoned, Jimnez y Muro established Regeneracin y Concordia, which was working to