المساواة بين الجنسين في تايوان

Supporters of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen

Today Yvonne and Louay talked about Taiwan’s efforts to establish equal rights and opportunities for women as well as men, or what is called ‘gender equality’.

For the very first time, Taiwan has a female presidential candidate, Tsai Ing-wen, and it is thought that she may well win. This partly reflects the country's more liberal attitude to women than in other Asian countries.

.Taiwan has also launched its first national Gender Equality Department this year and one of its jobs will be to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women.

But recent studies say that gender selection is still being practiced – and this shows there is still a lot of work to do. In the programme, we heard about one illegal practice, that of keeping male foetuses and getting rid of female foetuses before they are born. One women's rights group claimed that last year, as many as three thousand female babies were not born as a result of this because parents favoured having boys.

هل يمكن لرئيسة أن تساعد في وقف عادة الانتقاء الجنسي غير القانونية؟ من عليه واجب محاربة عدم المساواة بين الجنسين، الحكومات، المجتمع، أم كليهما سوية؟

Write to us in English

equal rights

حقوق متساوية

gender equality

مساواة بين الجنسين

candidate

مرشح

liberal attitude

مقاربة متحررة، نظرة ليبرالية

eliminate

القضاء على

discrimination

التمييز ضد

illegal practice

ممارسة غير قانونية

foetuses

أجنة