臺灣各大學婦女研究與兩性平等教育

Women’s Studies in Taiwan and Gender Equity Education

台大婦女研究室成立於1985年，揭示婦女研究進入學院的開始，迄今已有十多年的歷史。由於婦女研究是一個新興的學們、對大多數人而言仍是一個陌生的研究領域，故本文先簡略闡明「婦女研究」基本內涵，以及西方社會婦女研究的歷史演變，作為瞭解台灣婦女研究的知識背景，並回顧婦女研究室的發展情形。其次，分析目前相關的婦女研究發展階段論述，本文作者認為，婦研各個發展階段，並非直線進化模式推進，而是以螺旋辯證的方式進行的，並可能由於反挫，重回早期階段。因此，本文將台灣婦女研究發展依女性意識的成長分為六個時期輔助說明，分別是無知期、尋覓期、萌芽期、婦女研究中心期、挑戰／衝突期、兩性合作期。長期以來，婦女研究學者在學院中推動一場長期而緩慢的教育改革—兩性平等教育。兩性平等教育是婦女研究者在婦女研究中心期與兩性合作期被凸顯的主要工作，目的在檢視、反省，修正以往教育中潛在的性別歧視觀念與刻板印象，在日常生活中落實性別平等的思考，進而解構目前父權體制中具壓迫性的權力關係，建立一個和諧平等共處的社會。目前國內不論是民間婦運團體、婦研機構，或是官方機構（如教育部）等都大力推動「兩性平等教育」，成效評估似乎頗為樂觀，但實際運作上卻面臨不少挑戰與困境，該如何尋求因應解決之道，這是本文在最後所亟於討論的部份。

This is a brief review about the progress of women’s studies program/center in Taiwan and how it relates to the development of gender equity education. Based on the stages theory to scrutinize the development of women’s studies programs from the early neglected stage, and to the stage that is aware the gender difference but with male dominant concept, to the searching for missing women stage, to the conflicts among the subordinate status stage, to women’s centered studies, to women studies as a challenge to discipline stage, to the gender harmony stage. Equity, justice and development is the optimal goal of women’s studies. Therefore, gender equity education is the primary efforts applied by those activist, feminist and women studies scholars. The challenges faced to the promotion of Gender Equity Education will be the pedagogies, the development of teaching materials, the consciousness raising for those teachers, the feminist epistemology, the diversity/multicultural concept, feminism/female experiences, gender equity on sex education, confusion about the translation terms, women study/gender study/men study, marginal/central, localization/globalization, grassroots/partnership/elite dominance, with gender sensitivity mind administrators, etc. Personal is political. We need to continue the efforts and crate more supervision and monitor groups toward the development of Gender Equity Education.