however both male and female mexicans engage in formal banking at rates less than half of the oecd average both men and women face challenges to growing their business in mexico including inadequate access to credit however selfemployed men are more likely to be employers and to be formally registered in the tax and social security system selfemployed women tend to be ownaccount workers and are more likely to work informally often as domestic workers or street vendors women fill of seats in the chamber of deputies and in the senate compared to and respectively in