| Summary: | This paper explores the links between the social policy agenda and gender equality goals during the Enrique Peña Nieto administration. Specifically, it focuses on the evolution of three policies with implications for the wellbeing of women: child care services, life insurance for women heads of households, and pensions for the elderly. The outcome suggests that while these efforts did improve attention to women in vulnerable situations, the emphasis on combating poverty prevailed over one based on social rights. As a result, objectives like gender equity in social protection or the socialization of care and early education remained incomplete. The provisions of these programs principally comprised transfers and repeated the fragmented model of social policies, leading to poor levels of institutionality.
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