This Act is prescribed in order to promote substantive gender equality, eliminate gender discrimination, uphold human dignity, and improve and establish the education resources and environment for gender equality.
The definitional scope of a campus sexual harassment incident shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of this Act. In cases where the relationship between the parties involved does not fall within the definitional scope stipulated in this Act, the relevant provisions of the Gender Equality in Employment Act or the Sexual Harassment Prevention Act shall be applied as appropriate to the circumstances.

The following terms that appear in this Act are hereby defined:
1. Gender equity education: to generate respect for gender diversity, eliminate gender discrimination and promote substantive gender equality through education.
2. School, teacher, staff, worker, and student:
1. School: public and private schools of all levels, military academies, preparatory schools, police academies of all levels, and juvenile correctional institutions.
2. Teacher: full-time instructors, part-time instructors, acting faculty, substitute teachers, military instructors, volunteer teaching assistants, education interns directly involved in teaching, education internship program supervisors, and other individuals engaged in teaching or research.
3. Staff (member) or worker: individuals other than those listed above who perform fixed or regular school-related duties, volunteers assisting in school operations, student affairs innovation specialists, and individuals as designated by the central competent authority.
4. Student: individuals currently enrolled at a school, individuals not currently enrolled but in the process of transitioning from enrollment in one school to another within the educational system, continuing education program enrollees, exchange students, educational internship students or trainees, and other individuals as designated by the central competent authority.
3. Gender-related incident on campus: incidents in which one party is a school principal, teacher, staff member, worker, or student, and the other party is a student, and which meets one of the following conditions:
i) Sexual assault: acts constituting criminal sexual assault as defined in the Sexual Assault Crime Prevention Act.
ii) Sexual harassment: acts meeting one of the following criteria but not constituting sexual assault:
1. Engaging in unwelcome sex- or gender-related speech or behavior, whether explicit or implied, which adversely affect the other party's personal dignity, learning, or work opportunities or performance.
2. Sex- or gender-related behavior that serves as the condition for oneself or others to gain or lose rights or interests in learning or work.
iii) Sexual bullying: ridicule, attacks, or threats directed at another person’s gender characteristics, gender temperaments, sexual orientation, or gender identity by using verbal, physical or other forms of violence will be under the category of sexual bullying not sexual harassment.
iv) Sex- or gender-related behavior by a principal or faculty member that violates professional ethical standards: cases where a principal or faculty member develops an intimate relationship with an underage student, or exploits an unequal power relationship in the course of teaching, providing guidance to, training, evaluating, managing, or counseling a student, or providing a work opportunity to a student, to develop a relationship that violates professional ethical standards in the context of sex- or gender-related interpersonal interactions.
4. Gender identity: an individual's perception and acceptance of his or her own gender.

When using teaching materials and engaging in educational activities, teachers shall maintain an awareness of gender equity, eliminate gender stereotypes, and avoid gender prejudice and discrimination.
Teachers shall encourage students to take courses in fields that are not traditionally affiliated with their gender.