Much of the credit for this change must go to the efforts over recent years of the pioneers of the women's rights movement in Taiwan. Many people will surely remember that one of the first people to raise the banner of feminism here was Lu Hsiu-lien, now chief executive of Taoyuan County, with her call for a "new feminism" in the 1970s.
這其中，近年來致力於兩性平權運動的先行者實在功不可沒。許多人大概都還記得，最早在台灣提倡女性主義的是現今桃園縣長呂秀蓮在七○年代所提出的「新女性主義」，但當時引起的熱烈迴響卻隨著七九年高雄「美麗島事件」的陰霾而一度沉寂。