I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.
I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.