Advice, thoughts and resources for women planning to move to Taiwan or those who have just arrived and are scrambling to find resources. I find that these resources can be quite scant on the expat networks here, which are male dominated simply because there are more male expats here than female. We need info somehow, though, and this is the best way I could think to provide it.
This isn't a perfectly exhaustive list: check my hashtags for "womens_issues", "feminism", "expat_women" and other related tags for even more.
Updated 05/2019: New English-speaking OB-GYN in Taipei
Updated 05/2019: Recommended gym in Taipei
Updated 12/2018: good haircuts for expat women in Taipei
Large size shoes for women in Taiwan (not just Taipei)
Clothes for Western women in Taipei (the included link is also great)
What to Pack Post I and Post II
Why are there so few expat women in Asia?
Dating in Taiwan
Navigating Friendship in Taiwan
Abortion in Taiwan
Western Women and Weight in Taiwan
Health Care in Taiwan (with a section discussing women's health)
Getting clothing tailored in Taiwan
Know your labor rights, especially if you're planning to have children here
Yes, Taiwanese men used to trick foreign wives into divorce - fortunately that's no longer possible
Women's safety in Taiwan (it's actually pretty safe, but bad things do happen)
Women's safety in Taiwan II (my work in TaiwanScene, reposted to CommonWealth - this article turned out to be very popular)
Sexism in English teaching in Taiwan - it seems like nobody cares
I don't think expat men, in general, are particularly strong allies of expat women - truly I don't
...and I'm not a huge fan of their pontificating on Asian women's clothing either
Women in the Tech Sector Posts I and II
Women in Finance
Issues Regarding Rape (and more here)
The Low Marriage Rate in Taiwan, Posts I, II and III
The Low Birthrate in Taiwan
Sexual assault and politics in Taiwan (see my related piece in Ketagalan Media here)
Centred on Taipei March 2018: The Women's Issue (my piece is called "Newton's Cradle")
A Taiwan dating experience (a piece by me for TaiwanScene)
Sexual assault in Taiwan: From The Island of Women to #MeToo (more of my work for TaiwanScene), and what might happen if you come forward without pressing charges
Foreign domestic labor in Taiwan and sexual abuse
Island of Women
Book review: Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, and how Annette Lu has perhaps been done wrong
Firewalking for Beginners: women and religious festivals in Taiwan
It's hard as an American woman to vote for 'friends of Taiwan' in the US
Foreign male journalists in Asia can be more of a horrorshow than you realize
Women and the Taiwan Miracle
Gender discrimination laws and job ads in Taiwan vs. China
A redux of the ongoing discussion on sex slaves in Taiwanese history (called "comfort women", mostly to make sure men don't feel uncomfortable talking about it)
Western men: do better when you discuss women
The "Ideal Mother" awards and Taiwanese society
Marriage brokerage in Taiwan (contains a link - I have not written extensively about this)
Women and sexuality in Taiwan
