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Seeing the Ubiquitous Gender Prejudice in a Female President

by Julie Howard
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As early as 1975, the United Nations emphasized the concept of gender equality when it held the first World Conference on Women, but after so long, gender inequality is still everywhere in life. United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said: “The world’s female national leaders account for only 5%.”


Countries around the world are now implementing the Gender Mainstreaming strategy, with the goal of enabling men and women to benefit equally, ending inequality, and achieving gender equality. (Photo via Pixabay.com)

Taipei, Taiwan (Merxwire) – Honduras held a presidential election on the 28th of last month. In the end, Xiomara Castro won, becoming the first female president of Honduras. As soon as the election results came out, in addition to continuous congratulations and reports, there was also a wave of gender discussions. Whether men or women are elected as presidents, it is something to be congratulated. Why do the media emphasize women presidents? Are women leaders special?

United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric once said: “The global female national leaders accounted for only 5%.” The traditional patriarchal social concept believes that women are a disadvantaged group and should not have as many resources and job opportunities as men. According to the Human Development Report of The United Nations Development Programme, about 50% of men and women in the world believe that men can be better political leaders, and more than 40% believe that men can be better. Of corporate executives and have more work powers. In addition, 28% of people think that it is reasonable for a man to beat his wife.

More than 40% of people believe that men can become better corporate executives and have more work power. (Photo via unsplash.com)

There are gender inequalities everywhere in our lives. The big ones have leaders or power distribution, and the small ones are the signs or numbers of toilets. These can be seen. Because of the uneven distribution of power between genders, the needs or performance of girls are often ignored by society. For example, there are far more male scientists in textbooks than female scientists. Since childhood, we have known many male scientists, but female scientists But only know Madame Curie. The ironic thing is that Curie is not her real name but her husband’s last name. Her real name should be “Marie Curie, nee Maria Sklodowska”.

Curie, Marie (1867-1934) is a French physicist of Polish origin, a pioneer in the study of radioactivity, and the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. (Photo via pixabay.com)

How far are we from a society where men and women are equal? According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), it will take at least 99.5 years to eliminate the gender gap between men and women; The workplace is even more difficult. Women need to wait another 257 years to get equal status with men.

Even if all kinds of data show an unreasonable current situation, we don’t need to be too pessimistic. With the progress of the times, gender equality issues have received attention, and gender equality has become a global trend. The United Nations announced the “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) in 2015, planning 17 common visions that all countries in the world can achieve by 2030. Gender Equality is placed in the fifth goal: to achieve gender equality in all countries and strengthen all women The “ratio” of power with lesbians aims to eliminate gender discrimination.

According to the “2021 Gender Images” released by the Executive Yuan’s Gender Equality Division this year, Taiwan’s gender equality is ranked 6th in the world and the highest in Asia. The most obvious example of the improvement in the concept of human equality in China is the “Equal Pay Day” planned every year to examine the difference in the salary ratio between men and women. This year in Taiwan, the Equal Pay Day is February 20, which represents a two-month difference in the income ratio between women and men. Another 20 days, compared with last year’s February 23, an improvement of 3 days, the gap has narrowed significantly.

According to statistics, Taiwan’s “Equal Pay Days” in the past three years are February 20 of this year (110), February 21 of last year, and February 23 of 2008, showing that the gender pay gap is gradually narrowing. middle. (Photo via unsplash.com)

On the whole, Taiwan has performed well in dealing with gender equality issues. The Ministry of Culture also organized the “110 Annual Gender Equality and Media Self-discipline Promotion Campaign” on the 1st of this month, hoping that the media will have more diversified perspectives on gender issues. , In the news report, avoid using gender stereotypes, or discriminatory, emotional, and other terms. Compared with changing the “big environment”, changing “life” may be more effective. Let the media with strong communication power and a high degree of rendering become the first line of protection for gender equality, which can be carried out in daily life in a subtle way to jointly achieve one A gender-friendly society.

Gender equality is one of the goals of SDGs. Its purpose is to create equal treatment of both sexes in society, such as equal pay for equal work and equal rights when participating in democratic activities. (Photo via pixabay.com)

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