1. G roup 8 The Role Women Play presentation

2. Article Analysis “Story of an hour” tells us about the woman who underwent a dramatic incident about her husbands death and finally died of heart attack. ◎ She had died of grief that kills. ◎ We can see this story as western women’s sadness of being constrained by men.

3. “Lost Lives of Women” tells another story about eastern world. ◎ Women equals to men’s belongings. ◎ Men own many concubines who would be discarded away once men lose interests.

4. ◎ There are still many gender issues prop out every day and it seems that there is no solution to the problem.

5. Issue Discussion Labor force of women ◎ World War I leads to the shortage of labor due to men were sent to the battlefront. ◎ Western women’s status is keep rising by feminist campaigns.

6. ◎ Until eastern countries become colonized by western explorers. ◎ Women have the chance to learn, to think, to challenge and change the old thinking.

7. Opinions of Taiwan Society ◎ UN Asia-Pacific Human Development Report pointed out that women in Asia- Pacific area lack powers of politics and economy.

8. ◎ Women in Taiwan face dilemmas when they try to challenge higher positions. ◎ Men in Taiwan should adjust themselves to those new thoughts--a person's value can't be affected by his/her gender.

9. Difference between Western and Eastern cultures: the female military Thomas Chiu, a student from the University of Sydney. His opinion: There has been a significant increase of women serving in the military over the past century…

10. more women serving in the military ---a change for the better. However, in Taiwan, female military is not been paid highly attention to yet. The ratio of male generals to female generals is approximately 1400:4 in our history Taiwanese commonly see female military as tomboys and lacking of feminine temperament.

11. Self Reflection The basic problem is still there: MEN controlled almost all power and materials.

12. In Formosa Television’s film, the head of every company or ring are male, and the famous cartoon Doraemon has three boys but only a girl as leading character.

13. All we can do is: Thank you for listening!!