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Does your university as a body have a maternity and paternity policies that support women’s participation?

 

The University has established the ‘Guidelines on the Protection of Right to Education and Counselling and Assistance for Pregnant Students in the National Changhua University of Education’ to proactively protect the right to education of pregnant students and provide them with any necessary assistance. The enabling legislation for this Act is ‘Gender Equity Education Act’ of the Ministry of Education. The University has established the ‘Guidelines on the Protection of Right to Education and Counselling and Assistance for Pregnant Students in the National Changhua University of Education’ to proactively protect the right to education of pregnant students and provide them with any necessary assistance. The enabling legislation for this Act is ‘Gender Equity Education Act’ of the Ministry of Education. For the English version of the Act, please refer to the following website: https://law.moj.gov.tw/Eng/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?PCode=H0080067.

The University has also established the ‘Regulations Governing Contract Employees’, which specify the rights of pregnant employees, including leave for prenatal appointments, maternity leave, paternity leave, family care leave, and post-partum recuperation leave. The Regulations are enabled by the ‘Act of Gender Equality in Employment’ of the Ministry of Labour. For the English version of the Act, please refer to the following website :

The Gender Equity Education Committee of the University is a committee at the university level. It has set up the Campus Intervention Group on Gender Issues to protect the rights of students. Using the overall campus plan as a blueprint, it actively implements campus construction, improves the learning and research environment, and enriches and refines the software and hardware equipment for teaching and research; it strives to realise gender equality and create a smoke-free campus and an international student-friendly environment with a diverse cultural and artistic landscape, in order to create a functioning campus which is refined, sophisticated, healthy and happy for its students and faculty staff.

In addition, in order to implement the relevant provisions of the Gender Equity Education Act, the University has formulated the ‘Guidelines on the Protection of Right to Education and Counselling and Assistance for Pregnant Students’. A task force is set up immediately upon the discovery of underage pregnant students. The head of the office or department, in close relation with the pregnant students’ academic studies and learning environment , shall serve as the ex-officio member of the task force. The task force shall proactively protect the students’ basic human rights and right to education in the spirit of diversity and tolerance.