The Awakening Foundation is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit legal and legislative advocacy organization fighting for gender equality and women's empowerment in Taiwan. Born out of Taiwan's democratic movement under martial law in the 1970s and 80s, the Awakening Foundation was founded on the revolutionary idea that women should be empowered in both public and private life. Since 1982, the Foundation has been at the forefront of every major legal and policy victory for women in Taiwan.  

As trailblazers in Taiwanese feminist activism, the Awakening Foundation has spearheaded cultural and political change to dismantle oppressive patriarchal institutions and norms through public education campaigns and grassroots organizing. Our work promotes women's leadership and political participation, gender parity in the workplace, reproductive rights and education, and family law and justice, among other issues.