“Females are unsuitable for science.” Are there gender discriminations in Taiwan? Dr. Yu Wang believes that Taiwan situation is quite good already, the discrimination in gender is rare. However there are still stereotype for females in the society, that many of them give up to devote in scientific areas.

Dr. Yu Wang indicates that females have characteristics of being considerate and tough, which are suitable for doing scientific research. When there are difficulties, men will be demanded to keep on working, whereas the failure in women seems to be normal. Those females think that they are not talented enough therefore giving up easily. This is a common excuse.

  Moreover, Dr. Wang realizes that some of the American female students are not willing to perform as outstanding as they could, they often suppress and hide their ability and potential in the scientific area. They believed it will be difficult to make boys like you by being superior to the men. This problem is not that serious in Taiwan, that female has more space to develop and express themselves.

  Principal Yan- Hwa Wu of the National Chiao Tung University said, “Many girls care too much about others’ opinion. They are afraid of being different. They will think too much, that they begin to worry about family before even starting the career.”

Girls should understand clearly of their own interests and specialty. As long as you like it, you can definitely overcome the difficulties and devote all your passion. You should not draw back even facing “the future possible struggles”. There will always be a solution, which lots of people have been through.

(18th December 2013 United Daily News)