Women passively remained the "second sex" until the early 1970s. At that time, attorney Annette Lu (now a Democratic Progressive Party member of the Legislative Yuan) brought the ideas of the "new feminism" into Taiwan from the West. She dropped a rock whose ripples were, it seemed, beginning to spread.
女性這種「第二性」的定位持續了二十年，直到民國六十年初，當時執業律師的現任民進黨立法委員呂秀蓮引進西方的「新女性主義」，才算在古井中蕩起微波。