Making Tequila With Others Like Herself

Melly Barajas Cárdenas, center in black, is surrounded by her staff on the porch of her distillery, Vinos y Licores Azteca, in Valle De Guadalupe, Mexico, April 23, 2018. Barajas Cárdenas has built a growing distillery business with a work force made up almost entirely of women. “Some of it is really hard work, like cutting the agave," she said. "Most men could do this faster. But it’s not something women can’t do. It just takes a little bit more time.” (Lindsay Lauckner Gundlock/The New York Times)