FACEBOOK POST: The president identified three areas for improvement, including being more sympathetic to victims of gender inequality and education for judges
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 16, 2018
By: Su Yung-yao / Staff reporter
Taiwan still has a long way to go to realize gender equality, and the nation needs to work
President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday gestures during a meeting of the Democratic Progressive Party’s Central Executive Committee at the party’s headquarters in Taipei. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
on gender mainstreaming in the judiciary, improve workplace equality and ensure social justice is realized through the judicial system, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday.
“A recent case at the Court of the Judiciary has sparked widespread discussion in the nation. As the president, I should not and will not comment on the case, but the controversies surrounding it made me very aware that Taiwan still has a long way to go in realizing gender equality,” Tsai said on Facebook yesterday afternoon.
Tsai identified three areas of improvement for the nation.
First, society should be more sympathetic to working women, she said. [FULL STORY]