What causes gender inequality? In this podcast, Shelly, Cherry and Peggy will guide you to think deeper about gender issues and explore the factors that may cause gender inequality.

People’s thoughts change from time to time. Do elders hold different opinions about gender equality from young people? Do elders value  gender equality like most youngsters do? Listen to what Abby and Midia have found out about this issue.

COVID-19 has greatly affected people's life. In this episode, Mina and Kylie talk about how COVID-19 intensifies gender equality. They start the discussion with a question and then explain the issue from two aspects. Finally, they express their opinions on how people can improve gender equality.

Taiwan ranks sixth in the global gender equality report in 2021, but gender equality hasn't been achieved in every aspect of life. Una and Betty talk about some ideas and phenomena related to this issue in Taiwan.

In today’s episode, Fiona and Welly are going to talk about a special picture book program they did at school. They’ll share what this project is about, how they made their own picture books and how they expect it to change the society.

After World War II, the United States transformed itself into a superpower. Except for the Soviet Union and other second-world countries, no one was immune to its influence. Especially after the US Congress passed the Marshall Plan, an economic and reconstruction aid program for Western European countries. U.S. influence in Europe and Asia is even more unimaginable.

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In the second half of the 20th century, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, and mainland China was completely controlled by the Communist Chinese government. To stop communism, Taiwan and the United States signed a mutual defense treaty. Taiwan became America's anti-communist front in the Western Pacific. As a result, large numbers of American soldiers and aid entered Taiwan.

Many older generations experienced the era of "Taiwan-US cooperation" at that time. The U.S. military has brought some things that represent Western cultures, such as soap, cola, cigarettes, alcohol, and fashion magazines, all of which are loved by the Taiwanese. In addition, American pop music culture has also had a strong influence on Taiwan. Young people of that era would dance in ballrooms and listen to Western music as a fashion. It can be seen that Taiwan was deeply influenced by American culture at that time.

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These effects continued until Taiwan and the United States severed diplomatic relations, even after Taiwan lifted martial law and became a Democratic country.

Now, due to globalization, it is difficult for the whole world to be free from American or Western culture. The strong influence makes it easy for Taiwanese to accept various cultures from the United States or the West, so we can start paying attention to the influence on Taiwan's native culture.

The young speakers explain what gender equality is and discuss the causes of gender inequality in Taiwan. 

The young speakers talk about the problem of cyberbullying and some ways of dealing with it.

The young speakers talk about the pros and cons of social media and illustrate the phenomenon, "social comparison theory".  

The young speakers discuss what teamwork is and the importance of it.