the combined talents and perspectives of both men and women yield a better more comprehensive understanding of society at large which in turn improves the quality of policies and delivery of public services accordingly there is mounting awareness in mexico of the benefits that accrue from the equal participation of women and men in public decision making in congress the political executive the judiciary and across federal and state public administration they have introduced almost of all the proposals that have come before the gender equality committee in the chamber of deputies since the lxiii legislature of the mexican congress opened in september