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Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: WAM-PRACTICE-1

"It took the Taiwanese Netflix series “Wave Makers,” released this year, to give us the script. In a pivotal scene, two women working for a political party reflect on how to handle a case of sexual harassment. Reaching agreement, they repeat to each other, 'Let’s not just let it go this time'" (para 7).
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2

"On July 13, Taiwan’s cabinet proposed harsher penalties for perpetrators of sexual harassment and increased support for survivors under the three existing gender equality laws" (para 5). "'You’re overreacting.” “He doesn’t mean anything by it.” “Don’t be so full of yourself. You’re not even that hot.” “You should be grateful for the attention.” Or the best one: “He’s just being nice.” These and other familiar refrains — hopefully fading somewhat in the United States and other countries — are still common in Taiwan" (15).
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1

"As a young woman growing up in Taipei in the 1980s and ’90s, I [author]was taught to expect sexual harassment. Many clothing shops sell so-called safety shorts for women and girls to wear under their skirts to thwart peeping Toms. We have designated women’s waiting areas in metro stations with enhanced surveillance. The message? Creeps happen, but the burden is on us, women and girls, to change our behavior to protect ourselves" (para 9). "'You’re overreacting.” “He doesn’t mean anything by it.” “Don’t be so full of yourself. You’re not even that hot.” “You should be grateful for the attention.” Or the best one: “He’s just being nice.” These and...more
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"According to a Taiwan media report that cited statistics from the Ministry of Education from 2022, 24 percent of campus sexual harassment survivors were men, and some of the survivors who have come forward in recent weeks have been men" (para 16).
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-1, IIP-PRACTICE-2

"As a young woman growing up in Taipei in the 1980s and ’90s, I [author] was taught to expect sexual harassment. Many clothing shops sell so-called safety shorts for women and girls to wear under their skirts to thwart peeping Toms. We have designated women’s waiting areas in metro stations with enhanced surveillance.The message? Creeps happen, but the burden is on us, women and girls, to change our behavior to protect ourselves" (9). This implies that women are harrassed when in public spaces such as metro station (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT).
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: LRW-LAW-1, ERBG-LAW-2

"On July 13, Taiwan’s cabinet proposed harsher penalties for perpetrators of sexual harassment and increased support for survivors under the three existing gender equality laws" (para 5).
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"In spite of all of Taiwan’s progress, our society remains patriarchal and hierarchical. Under Confucian values, women obey their fathers and their brothers and eventually their husbands. People are expected to respect and yield to their elders and superiors — in short, the powers that be" (para 6).
Nov. 16, 2024, 9:46 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-4, ATFPA-PRACTICE-1, DMW-PRACTICE-1, GP-DATA-1

"We [Taiwan] elected an unmarried, childless woman as president and legalized same-sex marriage" (para 2).
Aug. 10, 2024, 2:57 a.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Comoros, Ecuador, Fiji, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, North Korea, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan
Variables: MULTIVAR-SCALE-6

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March 31, 2024, 3:14 p.m.
Countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Guyana, Iceland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States
Variables: TRAFF-SCALE-1

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March 30, 2024, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

"Fearing significant downturns in revenue stemming from pandemic-related restrictions, and witnessing widespread unemployment during the pandemic, traffickers in Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Ghana, and Türkiye—including some with connections to the People’s Republic of China (PRC)—saw an opportunity. They used fake job listings to recruit adults and children from dozens of countries, including...Taiwan..." (64). "In 2022, Taiwan located and repatriated hundreds of individuals from cyber scam operations in Cambodia and indicted dozens of Taiwanese individuals allegedly complicit in their initial recruitment" (65). According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Taiwan ranks as a Tier 1 country (85). The report notes that while Taiwan continues to meet the...more
March 25, 2024, 6:50 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law provides for the valuation of nonmonetary contributions. The WBL database cites the following as a source: Civil Code, Arts. 1005, 1017, 1018, and 1030-1 (2).
March 16, 2024, 1:13 a.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: IRP-PRACTICE-5

"Tiantianle (天天樂), the country's last remaining legal bordello, located on Lane 99, Minquan Road in Taoyuan City's Taoyuan District, has recently seen a steady decline in clients partly due to competition from illegal prostitution" (para 2). If illegal prostitution is thriving to the point that legal prostitution is losing out on the market, it must mean that enforcement of the laws against illegal prostitution is severely lacking (MCP - CODER COMMENT).
March 16, 2024, 1:13 a.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"A 2011 amendment to the Social Order Maintenance Act allows local governments to set up special zones to legally manage the sex trade, but many years have passed and no county or city in Taiwan has set up such a zone, resulting in penalization of both prostitutes and patrons as there are no legal places for them to engage in the sex trade" (para 7).
March 16, 2024, 1:12 a.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: IRP-LAW-6

"Is there mandatory registration? No - sex workers and brothels operating in designated red light districts may be required to get licenses, unsure what actual text of law says, but as yet no designated red light districts created" (para 4).
March 16, 2024, 1:12 a.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: IRP-LAW-4

"Is there mandatory registration? No - sex workers and brothels operating in designated red light districts may be required to get licenses, unsure what actual text of law says, but as yet no designated red light districts created" (para 5). "If sex work is regulated, is it in line with other work, or are the regulations unfair or overly restrictive? Regulations are overly restrictive - local authorities not obliged to allow sex work businesses, can refuse to designate red light district thereby keeping sex work illegal. Likely that mandatory health checks and licenses required to operate sex work business in designated red light districts" (para 6).
March 16, 2024, 1:12 a.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Is selling sex criminalised? If sex work occurs in designated red light districts then it is legal but if it occurs outside of these areas then it is illegal. In reality since the law changed in 2011 to allow red light districts no local authorities have complied and set any up so sex work is still de facto illegal. Reports from August 2017 said Mayor of Taipei was considering designating red light zone, but nothing could be found on this subsequently so likely did not follow through. Further reports in June 2020 stated that councillors in Changhua County were proposing to establish a legal red light district in their area....more
March 9, 2024, 5:19 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2023 data from the OECD, the percentage of women in Chinese Taipei who have experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner at some time in their life is 25% (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 24, 2024, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Armenia, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Georgia, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Moldova, Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan
Variables: MMR-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:19 p.m.
Countries: Russia, Taiwan
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:15 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-SCALE-1

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Jan. 24, 2024, 3:03 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Maldives, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay
Variables: DACH-SCALE-1

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Jan. 21, 2024, 11:23 a.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

"In 2021, Taiwan’s maternal mortality rate was 14 deaths per 100,000 live births. When compared to the 2017 rates among the 185 member states of the World Health Organization, Taiwan ranks 49th, with the mortality rate lower than that of 137 countries" (para 2).
Jan. 20, 2024, 1:53 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2

According to 2022 data from Taiwan's Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics Executive Yuan (DGBAS) Manpower Survey published by the national Ministry of Labor, Taiwan's female employment to population ratio was 49.7% in 2022 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 28, 2023, 2:43 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

The line chart titled "Life expectancy at birth (year)" shows that average life expectancy in Taiwan as of 2021 was 77.67 years for men and 84.25 years for women (para 3).
Oct. 12, 2023, 3:59 p.m.
Countries: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Sept. 29, 2023, 9:40 a.m.
Countries: Portugal, Taiwan
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"7.8 births per 1000 population"
June 17, 2023, 5:11 p.m.
Countries: Croatia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Uzbekistan
Variables: MARR-SCALE-2

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June 17, 2023, 12:49 p.m.
Countries: Taiwan
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following at the source: Civil Code, Arts. 1138 and 1141.