A year after a complaint was filed by the Taoyuan Flight Attendants' Union, Taiwan’s National Human Rights Commission has agreed that the uniforms many national airlines require for female flight attendants constitute gender discrimination.
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00:00Taiwan's National Human Rights Commission has agreed with the complaint that uniforms
00:04for female flight attendants constitute gender discrimination.
00:09The Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union filed a complaint with the commission last year.
00:13For most airlines in Taiwan, female flight attendants are required to wear skirts, heels
00:18and makeup.
00:19The complaint said this is time-consuming, restrictive and opens women into sexual harassment.
00:24The union also said uniforms may be life-threatening because flight attendants train for emergency
00:30wearing pants and sneakers.
00:32The Human Rights Commission agreed that the different standards for male and female flight
00:36attendants are unfair to women.
00:38It says the government should come up with guidelines on gender equity and workplace
00:42safety for national airlines.