VI. Disadvantaged Groups of Women Recommendation 22 The government should respect the tradition of mutual support in indigenous communities, integrate social welfare resources, and move toward an integrated community service model to facilitate sustainable development of childcare services in indigenous communities.
Middle-aged and Elderly Women 31. The labor force participation rate for women aged 25 to 29 in Taiwan exceeded 90 percent between 2018 and 2020. Thereafter, due to factors such as marriage and childbirth, women’s participation rate decreases rapidly with age, resulting in a lack of financial independence and pension protection for middle-aged and elderly women, who face the risk of impoverishment; in cases of marriage dissolution, economic security is heavily impacted.
Recommendation 23 The government should analyze the reasons for the impoverishment of middle-aged and elderly women, conduct an overall assessment of the gender impact on the pension system, and propose specific improvement measures to protect the economic security of middle-aged and elderly women. The and the CIP, by the end of December 2021, there were only seven public childcare facilities (with a capacity for 100 children under two years old) and 10 community-based collaborative preschools (with a capacity for 262 children aged two to six years old) in indigenous communities.

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