between and informality rates for women have fluctuated between a quarterly low of and a high of while men s rates have stayed in the range of to among informal workers employers and wage workers tend to be better off while ownaccount workers and domestic workers fare worse in terms of wages job security and social protection mexican women are far more likely to work in the second category than the first while of male workers aged in mexico report never having paid any social security contributions in their productive lives the figure is among women oecd estimates of enigh