The Tamsui Women's Academy is designated as the first women's cultural landmark by the National Cultural Association, which will publish a book, "Women's Footprints: Taiwanese Women's Cultural Landmarks," on this year's Mother's Day.
The forthcoming publication will weave Taiwan's history with women's experiences and re-trace Taiwanese women's footprints, attempting to re-present their spheres which once were not allowed to be presented in the old times.
In addition to the Tamsui Women's Academy as the first landmark open to the public, the president also named some others to the audience at the ceremony. "From the Chastity and Piety Monument in Tajia, Taichung, which allows us to look back and reflect on the widowhood and partial morality, to the Twenty-Five Virgin Ladies Tomb in Chichin, Kaohsiung, where we again witness parental grieves for their daughters that died unmarried, to the Comfort Women Monument in Hualien, where we should remember the wartime brutality toward Taiwan's women, up to the Tsai Rui-yue Dance Theater, which shows us to women's bravery in breaking social shackles, we will follow these women's footprints in history and find the models to look up to," the president said.
Having learned from Taiwan's and Taiwanese women's histories, the president wished to promote more affirmative actions and legislations to make Taiwan as a country where men and women are truly equal.
On the very special and significant day, the president wished every Taiwanese woman happiness and well.