Thursday, October 23, 2008

Assignment

Q1:
Actually women rights in Taiwan is already good enough than other countries, but in some parts also exist some problems. For the question, women make only 85% as much as men do for the same job, I think it is very unfair to women and argue for salary is also no use. So I believe many jobs to women is still exist gender stereotyping. Some countries has historical reasons about women rights, people in the country also think women is belong to the low status. For example, women in Arab still have to cover up their face when they go outside, so it is reasonable that women's salary is less than men's. I think the cultural reasons cause most of these problems. Maybe also have other reasons, such as social expectations and pressure, it limit that women's rights progress. So what can be done to fix this problem? I think the most important is to change the concept of women, we have to prove women also can do the jobs that men usually do, and the government have to set into action about women's right policy. So that women's right will progress fast and become better.

Q3:
Women in Taiwan have their status now, but in the early passed years, women's rights have not progressed fast enough. In the passed, women on the TV shows also play the role of poor people or do some very hard jobs, and of course their dressed also simple. But I think women rights is attach importance to most people now, no matter in music videos, news papers, commericals and TV shows, women can express themselves gradually, the conceptabout women also become better. On the other hand, I think men's rights is still as same as passed. Actually women and men in the TV shows is different from the tradition. Now we can see a lot of women rights has progress soon, such as women's election commericals, Nike also has a good commerical about women. Nike women This is Love So I think women and men are already become equal gradually in popular culture. But actually sometimes there still have some exceptions. I think gender stereotyping is still exist, some people stillthink that women is not good enough to do some jobs than men, also they don't care about women rights, I think this problem should be solve as soon as possible, so that women can have freedom to do jobs they like, and will not be limit by gender stereotyping.

6 comments:

Candance said...

I think in Taiwan, the social status of male and female are still unfair. But gradually our society accept the female who works outside. People have a new concept now!

Jeff said...

You're right that women's rights in Taiwan are great compared with many other places and Taiwan has made excellent progress.

But at the same time, any level of inequality should bother us. Do you think there is anything specific that can be done to fix the unequal pay?

Nina said...

I think that women's rights are better than other countries. We set many enactments to protect, but in fact, I don't think it works very well because some situations around us are still unfair.

awai137 said...

Although the women rights in Taiwan is good than other countries, actually there are still have the problem for women.

Kennis said...

I think women's rights can be more respected because I think it is not fair enough.

Linda said...

I also think it is not fair for women, so we must fright!!