KMT legislator You Yulan expressed her relief at the increase in the number of female cabinet members in the cabinet list.

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[Reporter Lin Liangsheng/Taipei Report] President Tsai Ing-wen announced yesterday that former Vice President Chen Chien-jen will take over as the Chief Executive, and that the number of female cabinet members in the appointed cabinet list has increased, which made KMT legislator You Yulan feel gratified. Let female civil servants have a role model and a dream, as long as they work hard, they can break through the "glass ceiling".

In response to the new cabinet list, You Yulan posted on Facebook today that the number of female cabinet members in Chen Jianren's new cabinet list has greatly increased. U.S. representative Xiao Meiqin will not come back to take over as foreign minister. She still regrets that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not a signboard of the Ministry of Severance of Diplomatic Relations.

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You Yulan said that when President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016, many people from all walks of life expected a breakthrough in the proportion of female cabinet members, but they were disappointed. Not only did the proportion of women in the cabinet and government officials not increase, but even the proportion of women in small cabinets in counties and cities It is also declining steadily, and the "glass ceiling" for women seems to be getting thicker and thicker.

You Yulan pointed out that in the 1126 county and mayor election last year, the KMT nominated 10 female candidates at one go, and Zhongzhang Tou Yunjiayi Huadong won the election with a brilliant record. In addition, Gao Hongan of Hsinchu City and Zhou Chunmi of Pingtung County had a total of 10 candidates Female county mayors can be described as an explosion of female power and a great achievement of gender mainstreaming. As the first female president of the Republic of China, the proportion of female cabinet members after Tsai Ing-wen came to power did not make a breakthrough until more than a year later.

You Yulan mentioned that among the new female cabinet members are senior legislators Guan Biling, senior political worker Xu Jiajing from the Democratic Progressive Party, Zhang Jingwen seconded by a scholar, and a graduate from the Department of Land Affairs of Zhengzhou University who took the national examination and entered the public service system. Finance Minister Zhuang Cuiyun, the most senior expert on the land.

The proportion of female civil servants in the Republic of China has increased from less than 30% 30 years ago to 42.5% now.

With Zhuang Cuiyun's success, female civil servants can have a role model and a dream. As long as they work hard, the "glass ceiling" can finally be broken.

"Will there be more female cabinet members, will they be more gentle?" You Yulan believes that her master's thesis focused on female police officers. Nearly 40 years ago, most police organizations in various countries in the world were dominated by men, and women were intruders. .

At that time, in order to get ahead in the police field where men were good at fielding, female police officers in Europe and the United States sometimes acted tougher than men, because everything was still played according to the rules of the men's game.