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During the 2012 Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF), former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said: “Invest in women. Women are natural social entrepreneurs.”

According to statistics from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in 2015, female social entrepreneurs outnumbered female business entrepreneurs in most regions around the world. Some scholars believe that more women prefer working in social enterprises due to innate values that break traditional stereotypes of women, resulting in a safer and friendlier workplace. …

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The grand opening of the 2021 “Asia Pacific Social Innovation Summit” will take place in April in Taipei. This year, the summit is organized by the Foundation of Women’s Rights Promotion and Development (FWRPD) and will bring a focus on gender perspectives to the conference. In response to the pandemic, the summit will also be broadcast live online. Don’t miss this opportunity if you are interested in social innovation or care about gender equality.

This article is based on interviews with FWRPD…

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How much time do you spend on domestic works? Have you ever thought if it is fair for women or mothers to spend their time doing unpaid house chores? How much do men contribute to house chores?

If someday all women refuse to work, what will happen?

What is social reproduction? The “unpaid” works of women

According to a piece of news in 2018, a single mother sued her son for not offering her “nurturing fee.” She had signed a contract with her son beforehand about supporting her financially when she…

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If feminism not only cares about females and is not hostile to males, why don’t it be rectified as gender equalitarianism?

People who care deeply about gender issues would know that advocates often worry that the articles promoting gender equality are only shared within the same community, yet some perspectives that couldn’t be more natural for them are hard to be accepted outside the community.

Some days before I wrote an article promoting domestic violence to be stopped, however, my friends did…

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“The traditional gender division of labor expects men to be able to financially support the whole family, and men will be regarded as “successful” in life. However, on the journal of male’s success, economic pressure may accompany with family conflicts or even broken-up. The image of an “ideal man” becomes a double-edged weapon, as men try to prove themselves, but are caught in the toil.

Financial downfall: the desperate of unemployment and underprivileged

While making money is a standard of men’s ability, unemployment under the social, political, and economic environment…

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In 2020, a virus swept across the world and caused massive disruptions. Many originally avertable situations have now become commonplace scenarios. Among such cases is “gender-based cyber violence,” a type of crime intensified by the pandemic.

What is Gender-based Cyber Violence?

According to the general recommendations issued by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), gender-based cyber violence (GBCV) is defined as “gender-based violence committed through the Internet or other electronic means.” Among its various forms, the most common type of…

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In traditional society, “caretaking” is perceived as a responsibility rather than a profession. Under the traditional gendered division of labor, women are often confined at home doing unpaid care work. In Taiwan, women did three times more unpaid work than men. In addition, the proportion of women who did not participate in the labor force due to housework responsibilities accounted for 50.4% of total unemployed women in 2019.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, single-income families are exposed to the risks of sharply reduced…

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Imagine what it would be like to have no financial backing for large-scale projects, such as building a superhighway across the nation or giving grants to local educational institutions. All of these would simply become impossible. However, this is the dire reality of many gender-equality projects and the reason for the launch of Financing for Gender Equality advocacy by many international organizations in recent years.

According to a 2019 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), out of…