Abstract
This paper discusses the formation of gender equity education policies in Taiwan between 1995 and 1999. In the first part of this paper, we provide a general description of Taiwan's women's movement, education reform movement and the development of women's/gender studies after the lift of Martial Law in 1987. In the second part of this paper, the discussion is focused on the formation process of two important policies, i.e. the announcement of gender equality education to be a part of the education reform agenda by the Education Reform Council, Executive Yuan in 1996; and the inclusion of gender issues as an integral aspect of the elementary and secondary school curriculum reform from 1997 to 1999. The social, political, economic and educational contexts within which these two policies emerged and the critical factors affecting the formation of them are analyzed.