The Executive Yuan on Sunday said that it is to fix violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) by the end of the year.
Taiwan enacted the CEDAW Enforcement Act (消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約施行法) in June 2011.
The Executive Yuan said it had examined more than 30,000 rules or regulations since 2012 and found 228 in violation of the convention.
The violations were grouped into seven categories, including sex stereotyping as well as restrictions on women’s work rights and restrictions on women’s property rights.
The last category includes all others, such as different rules for working conditions based on sex and requiring female employees to wear specific types of skirts.
The international treaty of the CEDAW was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly and came into force in September 1981.
Although Taiwan is not a UN member, the Legislative Yuan passed the CEDAW in a 2007 resolution and adopted the convention as domestic law in 2011.
The Cabinet last year invited five international experts on women’s rights to Taiwan to examine the report in June this year.
Last week, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Yu Mei-nu (尤美女) and other activists criticized the government, saying that it has said nothing to the public in the more than two months since meeting with the experts.
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