Upon entering university, Sagot became involved with the Feminist Center for Information and Action (CEFEMINA), an organization that, in her own words, “in the early 1980s, when nobody in Costa Rica spoke of violence against women, began the first discussions and actions aimed at confronting this serious social problem.” CEFEMINA and the "Woman You Are Not Alone" program were part of the organizations founded in 1989 by the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Network against domestic and sexual violence.

In the early 1990s, Ana Carcedo and I had the opportunity to learn about the book "Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing," which had just been published by Jill Radford and Diana Russell.

We came up with the idea of conducting an investigation into the murders of women in Costa Rica using a slightly narrower version of the concept of "Femicide" raised in the book by Radford and Russell.”[5] In 2003, Sagot was coordinator of the First National Survey of Violence against Women and later she was part of the coordinating team to design the second national survey in Costa Rica.

[3] She is the author of a wide variety of publications and research on violence against women, the rights of girls and adolescents, democracy, and female participation, among others.

She has also coordinated important national investigations such as the "II State of the Rights of Children and Adolescents" (2001) and "A Gender Look at Domestic Child Labor" (2003).