Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang (王如玄) yesterday said that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has done nothing for women.
At a Hsinchu County public forum with representatives from several women’s organizations, Wang said that while she and Tsai were both female candidates in the Jan. 16 presidential and legislative elections, they were different from each other.
“Ever since I was in college, I have endeavored to improve women’s rights. On the contrary, Tsai has never done anything to protect and take care of women, whether it was when she worked in the private sector or served as minister of the Mainland Affairs Council or as vice premier,” Wang said.
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“Tsai has done nothing, if you think back,” said Wang, a lawyer who has portrayed herself as a staunch advocate of gender equality and a voice against domestic violence and sexual harassment at work.
Wang said she is the one who would attend to the welfare of women, children and workers, adding that the 5,000-year-old Chinese culture was responsible for the discriminatory treatment of women in the workplace today.
It is not the first time Wang has criticized Tsai over what she says is the DPP chairperson’s lack of achievement in the field of women’s rights.
At a similar forum in Yilan on Saturday, Wang said Tsai was overshadowed by KMT presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) — who has served as a legislator, then-Taoyuan County commissioner and New Taipei City mayor — in terms of administrative experience and by her when it came to taking care of women and disadvantaged people.
Wang on Tuesday last week said she had been present at the signing of almost every amendment to women-related laws, from custodial rights and division of marital property, to domestic violence and sexual harassment at work, while the public has no knowledge of Tsai’s policy platform on furthering women’s rights.
Wang said on the sidelines of the Hsinchu forum that with only six days left until the first and only televised debate between vice presidential candidates, it would be the first she participated in and that she would begin intensive training yesterday.
Wang said she would focus on policies that could ensure a better life for Taiwanese.
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