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National Project of Hope: Gender-Friendly, Equal Rights Society

Source (Chinese): https://taiwan2024.tw/policies/14

• Creating a society where everyone, regardless of gender, can thrive together
  • Eight Major Plans for Gender Equality
    • “Work and Care” Friendly Workplace for Both Genders
    • Promoting Women's Decision-making Participation, Enhancing Women's Labor Value
    • Promoting Women's Political Participation, Nurturing Female Public Affairs Talent
    • Adapting to the Digital Age, Initiating Gender Equality Education 2.0
    • Implementing the Gender Equity Education Act, Act of Gender Equality in Employment, and Sexual Harassment Prevention Act
    • Promoting Women's Physical and Mental Health and Economic Security
    • Social Welfare and Safety Policies Should Consider Gender Differences
    • Continuously Promoting Equal Rights for Diverse Genders, Enhancing LGBTQ+ Family Rights Protection
• “Work and Care” Friendly Workplace for Both Genders
  • To encourage gender equality, sharing parenting responsibilities
  • Parents who both take full maternity/paternity leave with allowances will receive an additional month's allowance
  • Implementing flexible maternity/paternity leave and allowances
  • Encouraging companies to offer flexible working hours or remote work arrangements
  • Encouraging companies to increase childcare facilities
  • Government to provide free service hours for postnatal care and parenting guidance for families with newborns
• Promoting Women's Decision-making Participation, Enhancing Women's Labor Value: Echoing the spirit of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), breaking the gender career ceiling, reducing wage disparities due to gender
  • Increasing women's participation in decision-making and management, encouraging listed companies to have at least one-third of board members of a single gender
  • Narrowing the wage gap between male and female workers: Encouraging medium and large enterprises to regularly publish internal gender pay gap information, using transparency to reduce wage disparities
  • Improving working conditions to enable women to have long-term careers
  • Incorporating gender equality into Corporate Social Responsibility metrics
• Promoting Women's Political Participation, Nurturing Female Public Affairs Talent
  • Incorporating gender perspectives in government decisions, aiming for at least one-third of female cabinet members
  • Promoting parties to allocate a certain proportion of subsidies for nurturing diverse female political talents, including indigenous, immigrant, disabled, farmer, and worker backgrounds
• Adapting to the Digital Age, Initiating Gender Equality Education 2.0
  • Promoting diverse, all-age gender equality education, including sex education, body autonomy, emotional education, media literacy, digital privacy, adolescent education, contraception, and prenatal education, integrating these into a comprehensive gender equality education from early childhood to lifelong learning
  • Reducing gender stereotypes in the digital age, strengthening respect for gender differences and equality in emotional education
  • Integrating mandatory gender equality courses in the training and professional development of educators, school counselors, and primary and secondary teachers, strengthening care for diverse gender students, creating a gender-friendly campus environment
• Implementing the Gender Equity Education Act, Act of Gender Equality in Employment, and Sexual Harassment Prevention Act
  • Constructing a victim-centered protection system, strengthening effective measures against perpetrators and preventing recidivism with punitive actions and subsequent treatments, ensuring comprehensive and friendly protection and services for victims' rights, establishing a professional and trustworthy system for sexual harassment prevention, to ensure the implementation of gender equality.
• Promoting Women's Physical and Mental Health and Economic Security
  • Adopting a “Health Charter,” proposing medical plans for different genders and ages
    • Addressing health issues encountered by different genders at various stages of the life cycle, creating health policies with a gender perspective
  • Including the expectancy or claim rights of various occupational pensions within the pension system in the division of remaining assets during divorce proceedings, to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which “ensures the economic rights of divorced spouses, affirming the value of contributions made by the economically weaker party in the marriage and domestic labor”
• Social Welfare and Safety Policies Should Consider Gender Differences
  • Policies concerning labor, childcare, gender violence, economic security, and health needs should focus on women's experiences as well as men's needs, and appropriate policy measures should be developed for the specific circumstances of different genders
  • Paying special attention to disadvantaged groups facing multiple discriminations, such as those with disabilities, minority groups, economically disadvantaged, and different sexual orientations, providing appropriate services and assistance
• Continuously Promoting Equal Rights for Diverse Genders, Enhancing LGBTQ+ Family Rights Protection
  • Actively continuing to promote gender equality education in schools, workplaces, and society, implementing measures for equality, creating a friendly environment for equal rights
  • Ensuring LGBTQ+ families have equal access to social welfare measures and opportunities for free development, pursuing an equal rights society where people of different gender identities can “be themselves comfortably”