Women Leadership In the Student Movements

     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.” () Female members of student movements are easily to be suspected as puppets, which are meant to be controlled by others or be forced to become a shadow of the new requires of the issue ().The evidence is that no matter how high the status they have gained, as a leader member in the student movements, their identity as a woman is still be picked out and inspected spectacularly. 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.() 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.” ()

     Just as they’ve said, the true issues, true problems of women are seldom be exposed to the public. If women’s issue are actually inside no matter what different kinds of composition of society, then we should make sure that the proper 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.