Abstract
This qualitative study explores the challenges organisations in Mexico face in becoming inclusive of women with disabilities. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 50 senior leaders, the research examines inclusion within a developing country characterised by a highly masculine culture, offering a perspective often absent from mainstream diversity literature. Two principal categories of challenges are identified. The first relates to organisational culture, encompassing leadership attitudes, mental models, management perspectives, and physical accessibility. The second concerns the women themselves, including family background, personal characteristics, and access to training. The findings highlight that inclusive leadership is critical to integrating women with disabilities and that cultivating cultures of inclusion enables organisations to embed diversity and gender equity as core values. The study broadens scholarly understanding of workplace inclusion by centring the structural realities of a non-Western, highly masculine organisational context, contributing to debates that extend beyond the Global North.