However, with the lower socioeconomic status and traditional roles, women's health was largely neglected by the society and themselves. In Taiwan, the dominance of male- centered thinking has brought many bad deals for women. The caesarian rate of Taiwanese women is the world's highest, and the hysterectomy rate is the 3rd in the world. Women are supposed to take the burden of having and not having child. Men are not taught or expected to share responsibilities.
Women suffer from taking contraceptives and reproductive technologies such as test tube babies.
They also labor themselves physically and mentally to take long-term care of the elderly and family members of chronic disease. In the early nineties, women's health problems in Taiwan raised concerns in the academic fields. Through sessions, conferences, television, radio, newspapers, women communities and schools, women's health right was discussed and asserted. Opposing privatization of national health insurance policy In March 1997 the government for political reasons decided to privatize the health insurance which had been launched two years previously and brought ideal coverage to the entire nation, especially to women and children. Since commoditization of the health places the wealth of the consortium before the health of people.