Empowering prospective female village-chief candidates in Taiwan

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1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
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[Online] Microsoft Teams meeting

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National Association of Taiwan Women’s Associations (NATWA) initiated the Women Village Chief Empowerment campaign in 2018, the election year, in order to increase women candidates for Village Chiefs. At the time, women made up only 14% of Village Chiefs nationwide. NATWA organized a series of workshops in different cities in Taiwan, and attracted about 160 women enrolled. About 40 of them then joined the election in November, and eventually 13 of them won the election and became Village Chiefs. NATWA continued to hold workshops during 2019-2022 in various cities/counties in Taiwan, and more than 50 participants have joined the forthcoming Village Chief Election that will be held on November 26.

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About the Speaker:

Peng, Yen-Wen（彭渰雯）

Yen-Wen Peng is a professor and the Chair of the Institute of Public Affairs Management at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. She is the main organizer of the “Prospective Women Village Chiefs Empowerment Project” (女性里長人才培力計畫) initiated by the National Alliance of Taiwan Women’s Associations (NATWA, 台灣婦女團體全國聯合會) since 2018. She is also the Editor of Taking Mother’s Surname Happily (歡喜從母姓, 2016) and These Are What Village Chiefs Can Do” (里長可以這樣做, 2022). She also co-authored two articles with SOAS’s Dafydd Fell about Taiwan’s Green Party, and is now working with Fell and two other authors on the translation/revision of Fell’s book Taiwan’s Green Parties: Alternative Politics in Taiwan.

Research interests:

gender studies, public participation, democratic governance, post-positivist policy analysis, urban and community development.

Publications (2015~)

Written in English

  1. Yen-Wen Peng & Wei-Ning Wu (2021). Who would (not) use all-gender toilets… and why? A study on university students in Taiwan, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1987198
  2. Chao-Ju Chen, Yen-Wen Peng, Chin-Fen Chang (2017). “Women’s (No) Naming Right under the Shadow of Patronymy: Changes of the Public Attitudes in Taiwan between 2002 and 2012. Survey Research: Method and Application (調查研究：方法與應用), 38(2): 57-97.
  3. Yen-Wen Peng, Kae Takarabe, Eunkyoung Lee, Li-Ling Tsai, Ginko Kawano, Miwa Yokoyama, Hisako Ohtsubo, Mariko Ogawa (2017).“Gender Segregation on Campuses: Cross-Time Comparison of Academic Pipeline in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.” International Journal of Gender, Science, and Technology, 9(1): 3-24.
  4. Dafydd Fell and Yen-Wen Peng, (2017). The Revival of Taiwan’s Green Party after 2008. Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers (177-198). Routledge.
  5. Dafydd Fell and Yen-Wen Peng (2016). “The Electoral Fortunes of Taiwan’s Green Party.” Japanese Journal of Political Science, 17(1): 63-83.
  6. Yen-Wen Peng, 2015. “Gendering Policy Analysis? The Problems and Pitfalls of Participatory ‘Gender Impact Assessment’.” In Yu-Ying Kuo (ed.), Policy Analysis in Taiwan. Ch.6, pp.81-94. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

Written in Chinese

  1. Yen-Wen Peng (ed.) (2022). These Are What Village Chiefs Can Do: Handbook on Community Building. Taipei: National Alliance of Taiwan Women’s Associations.
  2. Tsai, Li-Ling, Yen-Wen Peng, Jan-Jou Chen, and Yi-Ting Lu (2021). University Professors’ Perceptions of Policy Needs for Gender Equality on Campuses in Taiwan and the Influencing Factors. Journal of Women's and Gender Studies (48), 71-123.
  3. Yen-Wen Peng, Yi-Yi Lin and Ho-Jing Yang (2018). Performance Paradox after Collaborative Decision-Making: Lessons from the Gender Impact Assessment and Eco-checklist Initiatives in Taiwan. Journal of Public Administration, 54: 41-78.
  4. Yen-Wen Peng, Yu-Ching Juang, Hsin-Pei Ho (2016). Women’s Participation in Science and Technology: Comparison of Statistics between Taiwan and EU. Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, 22: 225-74.

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