In the developing of nearly 20 years in
Taiwan, student movements play an important role in the democracy or economics
process. In the student movements, women’s activities are never absent. Female
members in student movements become more aggressive and active members in women
right’s protest and keep their influence from school to the society. Though
being a seemingly radical right’s protestor, they claim that struggle between
men and women or discrimination have never declined on them. Through the four
active female members of student movements from 1990, about the time of Wild
Lily, there are women’s issue that still be questioned even nowadays.
“We
devote ourselves into protection of country or history, however in the meantime
we cannot deal with the main problem as
being a woman.” (Ho, 2014) Female
members of student movements are easily be suspected as puppets, which are
meant to be controlled by others or be forced to become a shadow of the issue (Ho,
2014). Rather than believing they stand for their own rights, people tend to
think women are influenced by a bigger authority behind them, and especially
men. Such condition show that no matter how high the status they have gained,
as high as a leader member in the student movements, their identity as a woman
is still be picked out and inspected spectacularly. Also, revolutionary for
country or politics can easily gain resonance from the society, while women’s
right are not. On the other hands, women’s
issues are inside almost every kinds of class notion, such as labor, family, or
gender, but there are seldom voices strong enough to truly shake the notice
or break the myth and discrimination. For
example, in 1990’s, the period of rapid progress of industry, most of the
workers in factory are women. However,
the personnels or main employers of the guild are usually men.(Ho, 2014) They
also faced predicament inside their protest of women’s right, “If our movement
are actually making women’s situation, not the men’s, even worse, that we must
have been wrong.” (Ho, 2014)
Just
as they’ve said, the true issues, true problems of women are seldom exposed to
the public. To my own opinion, when the power of maternal love, such as
tenderness or inborn ability of taking care of others, are keep emphasizing by
the society, or even women themselves, then women’s power would always be
considered weaker and useless. Furthermore, if women’s issues are actually
inside no matter what different kinds of composition of society, then we should
make sure that the proper, or, a health notion of women, or the whole gender,
such as equality and autonomy, should exist in every members of the society. At
the meantime, we should ask people about
respect the autonomy of women, no matter what they decide to do, and stop
suspecting or inspecting their identity as a woman.
Reference:
Jun-shing, Ho (2014, Sep. 20) Discrimination of Women in the Students
Movement Retrieved from http://www.thenewslens.com/post/74634/