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As the postwar era commenced in the late 1940s, the status of women in Taiwan could probably best be described as dismal.
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Clark, C., Clark, J. (2018). Factors Promoting Women’s Participation in Taiwan’s Politics. In: Chen, Yc. (eds) (En)Gendering Taiwan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3_7
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