Founder ｜ Professor Jiali Wu
Founder of Taiwan Women in Science and Technology (TWiST) (1947-2021)
Professor Wu Jiali was born in Chiayi and got her name from it. She was a good student since she was young and was admitted to high school and the Department of Chemistry at National Taiwan University. After obtaining a doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle, she returned to Taiwan to teach at the Department of Chemistry at Tamkang University until her retirement. She has published two university general education books: "Chemistry, Medicine and Society" and "Chemistry, Food and Society". Her efforts in the chemical field have won her two "Special Contribution Awards from the Chemical Society". She is the only Taiwanese chemist to receive this honor so far.
In addition to teaching, Jiali worked with Professor Li Yuanzhen of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tamkang University and a group of partners to promote women's rights. They have worked hard in the women's movement for decades, making Taiwan's women's rights the highest among all Asian countries today. Her contribution is great. During her secondment to the Examination Yuan as an examination committee member, Jiali actively fought for women's rights, broke many gender restrictions, and improved the examination system. Currently, only prison officers do not admit women.
After 2000, she worked hard to unite women in the science and technology community. She first established the Women Chemists Association, then linked up with female professors in the physics community to co-organize seminars, and actively advocated for various societies to establish women scientists associations. In 2008, she founded the Taiwan Women in Science and Technology e-Newsletter, which is distributed in tens of thousands of copies per month. Interested people are welcome to subscribe and promote it. The e-newsletter is regularly sent to readers' e-mail boxes every month. It is very convenient to read, and the content is exciting and rich, which is still the expectation of many readers.
In 2011, we united with more female technologists to establish the Taiwan Women Technologists Association. The association regularly organizes activities, takes root, publishes books for elementary and middle school students, and recommends role models for female technologists, such as "Building Dreams and Flying", "Chasing Dreams, My World is So Big", "The Rationality and Emotion of Female Technologists", etc. We actively participate in international affairs and become a director of the World Women Technologists Network. We organize groups to go abroad for meetings and connect international female technologists. We hold international conferences (APNN and IConWiST) and invite many internationally renowned female technologists to Taiwan. We subsidize young women to go abroad for meetings or participate in competitions. These activities are what the association is working hard to do. Anyone who is interested is welcome to join and become one of us!
Encourage women in technology and enhance their professional development
There are about 4,200 female teachers (assistant professors and above) in the science and technology academic circle in Taiwan (data from the Ministry of Education in the 110th academic year), accounting for about 22% of all teachers in this field; there are about 200,000 female students in science and technology in colleges and universities (about 37% of such students). Both female teachers and female students are a minority in the same group. Therefore, we established the "Taiwan Women in Science and Technology Association" in October 2011, hoping to promote more women to invest in and significantly improve the science and technology profession. In view of the purpose of this association, to encourage and cultivate women to participate in the field of science and technology, this scholarship was established.
Qualifications
(a) Under 35 years old
(b) Currently a student (high school student or college student) or already has a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree.
Must have been a member of the Taiwan Women Technicians Association for more than one year.Be recommended by at least one member of the Taiwan Women in Technology Association.
Each person can only receive the subsidy once a year.