| dc.description.abstract | Gander is a not subject exist all by itself. It interweaves with multiple issues at the same time. This research focuses on the appearance of gender on inheritance and related issues, and then discussing about the relationship between ethnic group, gender, social culture, law, and the patrilineal system with this topic. It presents the actual situation of gender inheritance in Taiwanese society. Therefore, this article chooses Hakka women who have experienced inheritance in Taoyuan area as the main research object. Their experience is formed by the convergence of social culture, ethnic group, and living area.
The Hakka groups in Taiwan have obvious stereotypes. Othering Hakka women happen very often and people tend to put more tag on Hakka women. With their experience, we can not only understand whether there is a gap between the inherited relevant laws and the real situation in the practice of equal property inheritance rights？ And how do Hakka woman communicate and coordinate when there are conflicts during the inheritance process？ With the discussions of actual cases, it can also show the gender profile of property inheritance, in Taiwanese Hakka woman.
When the interviewees make negotiations and decisions, there are many different reasons behind that. Some of them are reluctant to fight for the right to inheritance because they want to maintain family harmony. Some have gifted real estate while the deceased still alive. Some heirs divide the estate equally. However, most of cases in interviewees’ families, the male lineal descendants received the inheritance. And the most respondents chose obeying the opinions of male siblings or elders as their negotiation method. In Taiwan, patrilineal system is rooted in the social and cultural, and it deeply influences the decision-making of inheritance, which makes the actual cases different from the legal inheritance rights. | en_US |