Gender inequality in the form of discrimination against women has existed in Chinese society since ancient times. The founder of the Kuomintang Party, Sun Yat-sen, supported the principle of gender equality and in 1912, immediately after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, insisted that it be included in the draft Constitution. In 1924, the Kuomintang recognized the need to "emancipate women's rights on the basis of the principle of equality between men and women in the law, economy, education, and society." Keywords: Kuomintang, gender equality, status of women, individual freedom, equality of opportunity. After the Kuomintang government moved to Taiwan, its policies became more conservative and authoritarian, which was dictated by the need to ensure social stability. In the 1950s and 1980s, Taiwan went through dramatic socio-economic and political conflicts, which led to a legislative increase in the status of women. At the same time, real equality of opportunity was still far away. The Chinese specificity of the" women's question " is that in the absence of such a necessary factor as the industrial revolution2, equality between men and women in mainland China was established as a result of the socialist revolution. Inevitably, in a society with a low level of development of productive forces, a formal approach to this issue has emerged [Li Xiaojiang, 1988, p. 73; Sinetskaya, 2008, p. 219]. Chinese women have experienced all sorts of social upheavals and transformations, from civil war, revolution and socialist transformation, to the left - wing politics of the "late Mao" era to modernization in the post-Maoist era (Honig and Hershatter, 1988, p. 8). Gender discrimination cannot be reduced to a"women's issue". The gender approach helps to understand the relationship between official ideology and generally accepted society3 values, social and economic development [Honig and Hershatter, 1988, p. 11; Li Xiaojiang, 1988, p. 73; Sinetskaya, 2008, p.15, 219]. 1 The C ... Read more