婦女佔人口的一半，其重要性可見，但過去的社會，女性是較為弱勢或被壓抑的。但是女性的影響太重大了，她們扮演維繫生命、安定家庭與社會的功能，所以，自古以來的政府都重視她們的重要性，對於她們的特殊貢獻，給予多種方式的表揚。1915 年，安坑有一個家境極為艱苦但又能淬勵上進的十三歲女孩廖氏嬌就以孝行感人的特殊行為被臺灣總督以孝女旌表。這項表揚對於臺灣婦女地位的提升應有正面的影響。

Women are important. But in the past, women were in a worse status and impressed. In fact, women played an important role to maintain the life as well as to stabilize families and societies. Therefore, every government emphasized on their importance from the past and praised them in different ways for their special contributions. In 1915, an extreme poor 13-year-old girl, Laio, Jiaoin in An-keng was praised for her filial piety by the doge. This commendation should be positively influenced to the advance of women’s position in Taiwan.