Taipei, Taiwan — In skinny jeans and chilly pepper red sneakers matching her lipstick, Kao Chia-yu was greeted like a film celebrity by her constituents. Instinctually darting between Putonghua and Taiwanese, Kao, 39, was on her last thank-the-voters victory lap on the Lunar New Year break. On Saturday, the three-term local councillor will be sworn in as a legislator. Now boasting a twice-elected female president, and a female vice president as early as in , Taiwan seems to have arrived as a democracy where women have as much a fair shot as men at any political office. What has paved the way to ensuring this is a long history of gender quotas for most races, except single-seat contests such as presidential and mayoral races. And women in the Republic of China, as Taiwan is formally known, have been fighting for a seat at the table for nearly a century.

Watch fullscreen. Asking Strangers for Sex: A Taiwan social experiment. TomoNews US. Asking Strangers for Sex. You have seen our last social experiment video -- an improbably hot woman approaches men with an equally improbable proposition: are you down for sex? In our experiment, none of the men she asked agreed. Some of you have asked, "but what if the roles were reversed, and we have a guy asking girls if they wanted to have sex?

In this paper, we calculate a base line of statistical data on the frequency of sexual activity at various ages of Taiwanese women. A cross-sectional study using questionnaires administered during personal interviews was conducted on more than seventeen thousand women who attended family planning clinics in the Taipei metropolitan area in and Of the women surveyed, 2.

A Taiwanese man was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years and four months in prison for sexually assaulting nine women and filming the acts. File picture for illustration shows policemen standing guard outside the Taipei District Court on January 19, A Taiwanese man was sentenced at the district court Tuesday to 22 years and four months in prison for sexually assaulting nine women and filming the acts. Justin Lee, the son of a well-known businessman, was jailed for 18 years and six months for nine counts of assault, the Taipei district court said.