Zapatista Role Model

The 1910 revolutionary army women, the Zapatista Chiapas women, Oportunidades, and Digna Ochoa all helped improve the lives of women in that they helped them directly, or they stood as role models for what could be done to improve the lives of fellow Mexicanas.
Because Porfirio Diaz is inefficient in feeding his armies up until the 1920’s, women have to step in and supply his army with food. Often times, these women would offer to take a soldier's rifle and shoot it for them while they eat and rest. Killing men and practicing their sharpshooting skills are appealing for many women. They could finally escape a lifestyle where they were the victims, and transition into being the victimizers of men. Petra Herrera was one of these women who was looking for a chance to
Her high status in the military was an accomplishment many look up to. She was very skilled, especially since she was able to take San Cristobal without any casualties. Comandante Ramona was not the only woman in the Zapatista army. Women made up 30% of the Zapatistas. They made demands for equality and justice with Women’s Revolutionary Law because women workers in Mexico had little rights. They weren’t treated as equals by the men in society, so they made 34 demands to make sure that they would be treated equally. The demands required basic civil rights like access to social services like education and health care, legal protection from rape through punitive and preventative measures, choice when it comes to family numbers and members, and the right to participate and/or lead in revolutionary and community matters. This improved the life of Mexicanas because when you have strong women like Comandante Ramona who fight for women’s rights making sure that they can become politically active and educated without the control of men, many of the injustices that are done to them by a patriarchal society go