雖然在國家政策開放與時代潮流的趨勢下，法律已賦予兩性平等的權利，但由於對兩性角色存有不同期待所造成的性別分化下，在號稱兩性平等的社會裡往往將性別的問題給合理化了，也就是說在勞動力為生活必要的前提下性別角色的位置是事先被社會放置好的，故女性在社會中所受到的歧視與隔離是社會建構的。 目前台灣女性的政治空間也隨著逐漸擴大，尤其是女性公領域中的參與的開放但是女性只要一跨入其中便會產生非常負面的形象。雖然女性得以加入公領域裡職場中，稍可突破原本公領域對女性的限制；而且也有少數的女性成為政治菁英，但女性在公領域中的表現仍是被扭曲的呈現。 且在類型日漸多樣的趨勢中比較為人所忽略就是在國會中擔任女助理的職務，這是越來越直接且普遍女性參與公領域模式。她們人數眾多且位居於公領域的底層，從事著多樣的工作內容扮演了不同的角色，但如何適當的來解讀這些訊息所展現與隱藏的意涵，來解構公領域中的性別是如何的被建構，是本論文的原始動機。所以本研究選擇國會中的女助理來理解公領域中性別問題的切入點，並站在性別角度上關切公領域是如何受到性別角色偏差的影響而成為延伸、複製女性傳統家庭角色的另一場域？企圖對這些女性助理做最真實的觀察，並進一步揭露這種長存於公領域中的性別偏差： 一、詳細分析公領域概念的不平等性，它更不是一種「去性別化的」建構。 二、探究公領域當中，如何將女性視為他者、弱勢其所造成的性別效果為何？ 三、瞭解公領域中父權宰制是如何透過政治文化與性別隱喻、身體政治的關係將女性隔離在外。 四、更進一步從中找尋出女性參與公領域的機制，其對公共政策與女性角色扮演有些反思及建議。 With the policy of government and the trends of the whole world, the Laws give the right of sex equality. But due to people have different expecting in sex, the usually reasonize the problem of sex, so the sex role and discrimination are contributed by society already. In recent years, the political arena for females in Taiwan has gradually expanded as a result of changes in gender politics. Moreover, female have gradually moved away from the traditional channel and category for female politics, reflecting their multiplicity in political participation. In the expansion process, female participants in public sphere must encounter one major issues, namely, their images were presented negatively. Especially to be female assistant in Legislative Yuan is a simply and directly way to participate in public sphere. The twenty female assistants for the ROC Forth Legislative Yuan in 2001.1-2001.3, have been chose as the subject. They are many in the base of public sphere, and doing and taking different role. It is the key point of the treatise the how to properly read the message and the inner meaning for de-contribute the sex of sphere and finding the agent of participating public sphere to discuss the public policy and the female role.
