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The status of women in Taiwan has been based on and affected by the traditional patriarchal views and social structure within Taiwanese society, which put women in a subordinate position to men, although the legal status of Taiwanese women has improved in recent years, particularly during the past three decades when the family law underwent several amendments.
Thus, from the 1920s to 1931, enhancement of gender equality and women’s status was promoted on Taiwan’s social and political grounds, including revisions to certain concepts in Confucianism. Due to the industrialization in Taiwan in the mid-1920s, labor disputes increased between Japanese capitalists and Taiwanese laborers.
In 2005, NATWA joined 16 women representatives to participate in the UN 49th. NGOCSW, 2005 In 2006, NATWA helped coordinate the participation of Taiwanese women's organizations in the 50th UN NGO CSW conference in 2006. In 2007, NATWA presented a paper at the 51st UN NGO CSW conference on the status of gender equity education in Taiwan.
This project was followed in 1987 by the Awakening Foundation with the intention of mobilizing more women, improving their social conditions and striving for their rights. After returning from the 1985 Nairobi conference, Ku and other women's studies scholars formed the Women's Research Program at National Taiwan University. She served as chair ...
Self-ruled Taiwan has a fertility rate of 0.89 children per woman, less than half the replacement level of 2.1 and one of the world's lowest just behind South Korea and Hong Kong.
Status: In force Gender Equality Education Act ( Chinese : 性別平等敎育法 ) of Taiwan was enacted on June 23, 2004. The General Provisions states the purposes of the act: "to promote substantive gender equality , eliminate gender discrimination , uphold human dignity, and improve and establish education resources and environment of ...
A wave of sexual harassment and assault accusations has roiled Taiwan, more than half a decade after the #MeToo movement sprang up in the U.S. A Netflix hit, a Facebook flood and an overdue ...
The woman, a professor in Taiwan, began her travel on 18 April. Due to heavy downpour, the American woman and her guide got separated from the rest of the group and had been traveling together on ...