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The over one million Tibetan women living at the
roof of the world in China'sTibet Autonomous Region account
for 51 percent of Tibet's total population. Over95 percent
of the women are of the Tibetan nationality and the rest are
of the Han, Hui, Moinba, Lhasa, Nu and Naxi nationalities,as
well the Deng and Shar-pa people.
Women in old
Tibet,even up to the 1950s,lived in a society which was
darker andmore brutal then that of the European serfdom of
the Middle Ages.They were referred to as
"vjigd-med" which meant "the most low and
degrading people".
Tibet was peacefully
liberated in 1951.When Tibet practised the Democratic
Reformin 1959, Tibetan women went from being serfs and
"vjigs-med," to masters of their own countries.
The first generation of women cadres, workers, doctors,
teachers, scientistsand technologists has emerged amongst
them.
Striding into the 1980s,along with the
tide of China's policy of opening upto the world,Tibetan
women have become entrepreneurs,managers,lawyers,as well as
translators who have a good knowledge of international
trade.Tibetan women have also appeared among groups of
Chinese studying overseas.
Today,Tibetan women
are considered "half of the sky" in new Tibet's
socialist construction, and an indispenseable force in the
socialist construction of the motherland.
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