Taiwan is going to have a female Presidential Office spokesperson for the first time – Kolas Yotaka. That’s a part of the minor Cabinet shuffle that is happening as President Tsai Ing-wen is inaugurated for her second term on Wednesday.
The glass ceiling is breaking in Taiwan politics. Not only is Taiwan inaugurating its first female president Tsai Ing-wen to a second term, 42% of its lawmakers are women, and the new Presidential Office Spokesperson is Kolas Yotaka, the first woman to hold the job.
When the announcement was made on Tuesday, she shared that she has served as the Democratic Progressive Party spokesperson and the Executive Yuan spokesperson. “The party, the Cabinet, and now the Presidential Office,” she says, “This is like being in a triathalon. No one else has broken this glass ceiling."
Yotaka is an Amis Taiwanese politician who was a legislator, the head of Taoyuan City’s Department of Indigenous Affairs and a Taiwan Indigenous Television anchorwoman.