Cabinet needs gender balance: committee membersBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterPresident Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) need to create a more gender-balanced Cabinet, several outgoing members of the Fourth Gender Equality Committee said yesterday. Members of the Fourth Gender Equality Committee hold placards at a news conference in Taipei yesterday urging the government to appoint more female Cabinet members. The Gender Equality Committee consists of 27 to 35 members, including the premier and vice premier, who serve as convener and deputy convener respectively. Committee members are appointed by the premier and can include up to nine professionals selected from among the public, and nine representatives from gender or women’s groups. A list of new committee members would be announced after Su approves it, he added.

Source: Taipei Times June 30, 2020 15:56 UTC