戰後臺灣婦女研究的發展，與臺灣政治、社會、文化等面向具有密切的關係；再加上教育的普及、都市化的加速、職業結構的改變，以及資訊傳遞的加速等方面，亦促使臺灣婦女地位的提升改變，不但創造新的研究課題，也提供研究學者所需的發展環境。 本文以婦女為主體，探討戰後至解嚴前婦女實際參與各項中央及地方公職人員選舉的過程與參與現況，分別就戰前臺灣婦女參政活動、戰後初期婦女參政活動、戒嚴時期婦女選舉政治參與三方面進行分析，以瞭解臺灣婦女在戒嚴時期選舉政治的參與程度，對於戰後臺灣婦女對政治漠視到積極參政的轉變，以及其對戰後臺灣政治發展的貢獻及社會地位的提升，均有其時代性轉變的意義。

The development of Taiwan women research after 1945 is closely related to Taiwan’s politics, society, culture, and so on. In addition, popularization of education, acceleration of the urbanization, change in occupational structure, and acceleration of information transmission are a couple of crucial factors to rapidly change in all respects of the position of Taiwan women. This is not only to provide an innovative researching field but also facilitate studies for academic researchers to work in the corresponding environment. In this paper, we pay attention to the women for addressing the problem in which Taiwan women had been practical to participate in the central and local elections from 1945 to 1987. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze Taiwan women practical activities of political before 1945, the women participated in political activities after 1945, and before the abolition of Martial Law. Moreover, three issues are discussed in this paper; the first one is to comprehend Taiwan women participated in politic of election within the Martial Law, the second one is to reveal the influence on politics motivations and changing processes for Taiwan women after 1945, and the last one is to promote Taiwan political developments and their social positions that have the important meaning in time transformation.