Women in Taiwan

Women in Taiwan in 1933
Tsai Ing-wen, elected as president of Taiwan in 2016 and 2020

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. Throughout history, women in Taiwan had suffered various forms of discrimination, including foot binding.[1]