Abstract
While several women’s movements that aimed to modify their relationship with public space were taking place across the world, in 1956, the Mexican Social Security Institute founded the program Casa de la Asegurada, the subject of this study, as a tool for improving the social security of Mexican families through the input of cultural, social, artistic, and hygienic knowledge for women. The program’s facilities, Casas de la Asegurada, are located in the large Mexican housing complexes, articulating themselves to the existing city. Despite the impact on the lives of Mexican families, these have been ignored throughout the history of Mexican architecture. The main objective of this paper is to show the state of the art of Casa de la Asegurada and its facilities located in Mexico City. To achieve this, the greatest number available of primary sources on the topic was compiled through archive and document research. Sources were classified identifying information gaps to explain, in three different scales (program, facilities, and a case study), how they work through their objectives, performed activities, and evolved through time, so that the gathered information is analyzed with an urbanistic, architectural, and gender approach to contribute new ideas in the building of facilities that allow women empowerment.
Highlights
The Declaration of Human Rights, signed in Paris in 1948, recognizes that everyone has the right to social security and economic, social, and cultural rights indispensable to their dignity [1]
Macias Santos [2] defines social security in Mexico as a general and homogeneous system of benefits, of public law and state supervision, whose purpose is to guarantee the human right to health, medical assistance, protection of the means of subsistence, and the social services necessary for individual and collective well-being through the redistribution of national wealth
Institute (IMSS, after the Spanish initials for Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) founded, in 1956, the program Casa de la Asegurada, the subject of this study
Summary
The Declaration of Human Rights, signed in Paris in 1948, recognizes that everyone has the right to social security and economic, social, and cultural rights indispensable to their dignity [1]. It was made to support all Mexican’s social security through women’s role as unifiers of the family and proposed that, through the acquisition of specific knowledge by women, they could lead Mexican families towards a better quality of life, emphasizing family ties, daily life, and popular values.
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