[5] In 2005, its director, Esperanza Brito de Martí, reported that the print version was being discontinued due to high costs and from then on, the magazine would only be published online.
[5] During interviews conducted by Fem, few women who held positions in the public eye were willing to acknowledge or identify their perspectives as feminist (e.g. the first female governor of Mexico, Griselda Alvarez).
Fem was instrumental in establishing that sexuality was not simply a personal characteristic but also a political narrative that marked the oppression experienced by women throughout the world.
By asserting that women's biological differences from men were not challenges to be addressed individually, Fem illuminated the importance and political nature of maternity, abortion, sexuality, contraception, lesbianism and rape in interviews with individuals such as Marta Lamas whom were significant in the social recognition of women's imperatives within the male dominant hierarchy within Latin America.
This provisional strategy was employed to avoid alienation from the slower political and cultural developments relative to gender within Latin America.