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About Gender Equity Committee：

Establishment of Gender Equity Committee is in order to promote substantive gender
equality, eliminate gender discrimination, uphold human dignity, and improve and
establish education resources and environment of gender equality.

Our tasks include:

1. 1.Integrate related resources in various departments of the school, propose the projects
      of gender equity education, execute the proposals, and examine the results of the projects.
2. 2.Plan and execute the activities related to gender equity for students, staff, faculty,
      and parents.
3. 3.Promote, develop, perform, and evaluate the courses of gender equity education.
4. 4.Propose and implement regulations on gender equity, prevent the occurrence of sexual assault
      and sexual harassment in campus as well as establish the mechanism to coordinate and
      integrate related resources.
5. 5.Establish a safe and gender-fair campus.
6. 6.Promote gender equity in family education and social education at community level.
7. 7.Investigate and handle cases pertinent to Gender Equity Education Act.
8. 8.Accept appeal and handle cases of sexual harassment pertinent to the Act of Gender Equality
      in Employment.
9. 9.Accept appeal and handle cases of sexual harassment pertinent to Sexual Harassment
      Prevention Act.
10. 10.Other matters related to gender equity at school or community level.

Appeal for the related cased of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or
sexual bullying incident in campus：

【Scope of the appeal】

1. 1.Sexual assault: Any sexual offense defined by the Sexual Assault Prevention Act.
2. 2.Sexual harassment: Cases described by the following and do not reach the level of
      sexual assaults:
      (1) Unwelcome remarks or conducts that carry explicitly or implicitly a sexual or gender
          discriminating and thereby adversely affect the other party’s human dignity, or hinder 
          the performance of her or his learning or work.
      (2) A conduct of sexual or gendered nature that is served as the purpose for oneself
          or others to gain or lose rights or interests in learning or work.
3. 3.Sexual bullying: Ridicule, attack, or threat directly at another person’s gender
      characteristics, gender temperaments, sexual orientation, or gender identity by verbal,
      physical or other forms is under the category of sexual bullying not sexual harassment.
4. 4.Sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sexual bullying in campus: Any case of sexual
      assault, sexual harassment, or sexual bullying that involves a school’s president,
      faculty, staff, or student as one party and a student as the other party.

【Procedures of appeal】

How to appeal

• 1.Download and fill in the form, then send it to the email account of the Gender
     Equity Education Committee.

   Appeal for campus sexual assault, sexual harassment, or sexual bullying incident
   in National Kaohsiung Marine University(Download)

• 2.Go to the Office of Secretariat on the 3^rd Floor of Administration Building, a staff
     will assist filling the form.

What’s the procedure when the appeal is received？

1. 1.After receiving the appeal, the case shall be sent to the Gender Equity Education
      Committee within three days to decide the case of this appeal shall be established
      or not.
2. 2.Whether the case of the appeal has been established or not, a written notification
      shall be sent to appellant within twenty days after receiving the appeal.
3. 3.After the case has been established, Gender Equity Education Committee shall
      conduct an investigation based on the regulations
4. 4.All investigations are conducted in confidential, just, and objective manners.

Laws&Regulations

• ‧Gender Equity Education Act(Download)
• ‧Regulations on the Prevention of Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and
     Sexual Bullying on Campus(Download)

Contact informaiton？

• Contact center: Office of Secretariat-Ms. Liao, Min-Yi.
• Site：Administration Building 3F
• Tel：07-3617141 ext. 2012
• Fax：07-3628844
• E-mail：minyi@webmail.nkmu.edu.tw