Ana Lau Jaiven

Ana Lau Jaiven (born 1948) is a Mexican feminist, academic and researcher at the UAM Azcapotzalco.

Francesca Gargallo places her in a group of Latin American feminist historians alongside Julia Tuñón, Ana Arroba, Edda Gabiola and Araceli Barbosa.

[2] Inspired by the '68 student movement, Ana Lau Jaiven helped form Mexico's first second wave feminist groups in the early 1970s.

Since 2001, she has been a research professor in the Department of Politics and Culture of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of UAM-Xochimilco.

On November 20, 2015, she became the first historian to receive the Clementina Díaz y de Ovando Prize, awarded by the National Institute for Historical Studies of the Mexican Revolution (INEHRM) for her achievements in social, cultural and gender history.