When the Democratic Progressive Party became the ruling party in 2000, it named Lin Fang-mei, then a feminist scholar, head of the National Youth Commission (NYC). While there, Lin began promoting "gender mainstreaming," a concept advocated by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
西元 2000 年政黨輪替，輔導青年創業的前青輔會主委林芳玫由學界轉任，原本研究女性思潮的她，開始推動聯合國婦女發展基金會主張的「性別主流化」思維。