Is Professor and Researcher at the School of Communication, Universidad Panamericana, Campus Mexico. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Sheffield. Her research interests focus on gender, communication, and politics, with particular attention to political representation, media, and public policy. She is the editor of Political Representation and Gender Equality in Mexico (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the author of several articles published in journals such as Representation, Cogent Social Sciences, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, and Bulletin of Latin American Research. She is currently preparing her forthcoming book, Gender, Media, and Communication in Latin America. Dr. Vidal Correa was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is a member of the Political Studies Association, the International Political Science Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the Mexican Association of Political Science. She has also served as a member of the UN High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment and as an external advisor to the University Program of Asian and African Studies (PUEAA). Her work examines institutional and communicational barriers to women’s political presence in Latin America.