Impacts of Sinosphere on Ensuring Equal Rights of Ethnic Minority Women in Southeast Asian Countries: Barriers, Challenges and Recent Developments

The Sinosphere culture has specific effects on the role of women in society. Moreover, along with the development of human rights standards, Southeast Asian countries have achieved changes in ensuring human rights and gender equality. Since the Sinosphere has influenced gender equality in Southeast Asian countries, what are the effects on gender equality of ethnic minority women (EMW) from there to now? It is necessary to figure out gender equality in Southeast Asian countries and the impacts of the Sinosphere in these countries. This chapter will identify the values of the Sinosphere/Eastern Asian Cultural sphere and its impacts on awareness of the position of EMW in Southeast Asian countries. Then, the chapter will clarify the effects of the values of the Sinosphere on the gender equality of EMW in these countries.