II. Case Overview This report contains the investigation results for the complaint filed by the TFAU on August 1st, 2023. It was prepared in accordance with Article 2, Subparagraph 1 of the Organic Act of the Control Yuan National Human Rights Commission, Article 7 of the Principles for Accepting and Investigating Human Rights Complaints, and the resolutions of the 49th and 55th meetings of the 1st NHRC. In its complaint, the TFAU states that the majority of Taiwanese airlines require female cabin crew members to wear skirts, stockings, high heels, and makeup, which the TFAU believes to be a violation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), to infringe upon female cabin crew’s privacy, and to potentially weaken their emergency response capacity in the event of an evacuation. Furthermore, the current Gender Equality in Employment Act only allows individual laborers and jobseekers to file complaints, resulting in a lack of protection for workers as a class or group. As a part of its investigative process, the NHRC interviewed cabin crew, airline representatives, experts and scholars, government agencies, and NGOs to determine whether the dress codes adopted by the six Taiwanese airline companies constitute gender discrimination pursuant to Articles 1 through 5 and Article 11 of CEDAW; Articles 2, 3, and 7 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); and Articles 1 and 9 of the International Labor Organization’s Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190), among other international human rights standards. More specifically, the aim of the NHRC investigation was to determine whether the dress codes expose female cabin crew to higher occupational health and safety risks and whether government agencies have adequate safeguards in place to protect female cabin crew from discrimination and to ensure that they enjoy the same employment rights and occupational safety conditions as their male counterparts. In its investigation, the NHRC found that most Taiwanese airlines 2