Following Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's election in 2016, the BBC called the island "the place to be a woman in politics".
But judging by the current election campaign, equal opportunity in politics is possibly just a veneer in Taiwan, with misogynist comments and sexist slurs being thrown about almost at will.
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