More than 85 percent of Taiwanese are not aware of the Gender Equality Employment Law (
Deputy Taipei Mayor Yeh Chin-chuan (
Liu Mei-chun (
Liu, a Taipei gender equality employment committee member, said that the committees under local labor affairs departments rarely received cases to evaluate.
This was because many women are still not aware of their own rights and local governments do not put a lot of emphasis on gender equality issues, Liu said.
Chang Chiung-ling (
Chang said that CLA only surveys big companies where the law is carried out, but many smaller businesses remain ignorant about gender equality.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lin Hung-chih (
Fully 94.44 percent of the women surveyed had at least a high school degree, yet many had no clue what their rights were, Lin said.
The survey also indicated that 65.2 percent of women said that they have never been treated unfairly at work. Lin however, questioned that finding, saying that since most women did not understand what their rights were, they would not even know whether their rights had been violated or not.
The government needs to be responsible for promoting the law, but women should also be more active and aware of gender equality, he said.
The survey was conducted by the National Policy Foundation from last Monday to last Saturday by telephone.
Roughly 845 people were polled, and the survey had a 3.5 percent margin of error.
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