Over 42 percent of Taiwan’s legislators are women – one of the highest rates in the world, exceeding the United States Congress at 28 percent and the European Union average of 33 percent.
mandag 9. mars 2026
Taiwan’s ‘Social Shield’: The Democratic Stakes Beyond Semiconductors
The strategic case for Taiwan’s survival has been made in the language of semiconductors and military deterrence – the so-called Silicon Shield. It has rarely been made in the language of gender equality. It should be. Taiwan has built something that no other society in the Asia-Pacific has managed: a model of female political and civic power that is simultaneously democratic, culturally rooted, and structurally durable.
Over 42 percent of Taiwan’s legislators are women – one of the highest rates in the world, exceeding the United States Congress at 28 percent and the European Union average of 33 percent.
Over 42 percent of Taiwan’s legislators are women – one of the highest rates in the world, exceeding the United States Congress at 28 percent and the European Union average of 33 percent.
