In February 2020, Ingrid Escamilla and Fátima Cecilia, 25 and 7 years old, respectively, were victims of a crime that often breaks out in Mexico: feminicide. The truculence of the cases shocked the population, generating protests whose addressees were the yellow press and those responsible for investigating and punishing all forms of violence against women; In addition, a national female strike occurred on March 9 with significant economic consequences.

In the first quarter of the year there were almost 250 femicides in the country; The fact that the COVID-19 pandemic was recognized on March 11, becoming the focus of information activity on a global scale, does not imply avoiding other issues as serious as that plague that, from one moment to another, became galloping and altered the way of life of billions of people. The vigor with which efforts have been made to achieve remission and subsequent disappearance of the coronavirus must prevail to boldly combat the unworthy and even lethal treatment suffered by millions of women around the world.

The need to remain behind closed doors to avoid contact has not reduced many risks for the unjustly called "weaker sex"; Many media have reported rampant domestic violence and femicides perpetrated during the contingency. In appearance, sevice is the reward of the "eternal feminine", an archetype that favors misogyny and places women in a status as undeserved as it is improper. This calamity is due, above all, to the lack of respect and institutional lukewarmness regarding the achievement of gender equality; in the case of Mexico, the weight of atavism is considerable and overcoming educational deficiencies seems remote.

It would be foolish to deny that significant progress has been made towards gender equality; but there tends to be conceptual problems that advocate the emergence of a gynecocracy that can be confused with total female domination. In reality, it is not a matter of executing actions that lead to an inversion of positions that would undoubtedly leave gender violence untouched, but of ensuring consistency between the doctrine of human rights and its foundation: dignity. Although the freedom and respectability of women have long been recognized, the recurrence of countless vices has generated constructs aimed at understanding why, it seems, there must be movements determined to endow this sector with what it has not enjoyed full.

Whatever it is, the contribution of each and the institutions to eliminate all kinds of violence against women is a must. In this sense, the National Institute of Criminal Sciences, a leading guide to understand the reasons for illegal behavior and the corresponding ius puniendi of the Mexican State, dedicates number 11 of the Mexican Journal of Criminal Sciences to the phenomenon of gender violence and, specifically, feminicide, one of the many aberrations that society must face and overcome, so that in the future there will be no more generations sunk in anxiety.

                                                                                                                                           Sergio Alonso Rodríguez