ABSTRACT
November 30, 1996 marked a milestone in the history of the women's movement in Taiwan. On this day, the director of the Department of Women's Affairs of the democratic progressive party (DPP), Wan-Ru Peng, was raped and murdered by a taxi driver after a whole-day DPP convention held in Kaohsiung. This was the first solid indication of progress in promoting women's participation in Taiwan's male-dominated politics. From slogans to policies, and from outside the system to within the system, the women's movement has grasped the political opportunity of democratization and globalization. With the increase in the number of feminist scholars and the growing women's movement, the relationship between the women's movement and women's studies became increasingly close. For the women's movement, gender mainstreaming is a strategy used to prompt the central government to be actively involved in promoting gender equality. Gender mainstreaming, a gender equality policy, was initiated by the United Nations World Conference on Women in 1985.
