WUNRN
Chinese Women's Research Network
TIBET - WOMEN ENJOYING HIGHER
SOCIAL STATUS THAN BEFORE
Three hundred and fifteen women representatives attend the congress in the region’s capital of Lhasa on July 15, 2013. Chinanews
July 16, 2013 - According to
information released at the Ninth Tibetan Women's Congress, women in southwest
Statistics show that the number of
female civil servants in the region has reached 19,000, accounting for 34.49
percent of the total civil servants there and demonstrating
Three hundred and fifteen women
representatives attended the congress in the region’s capital of
The proportion of women officials,
deputies to People's Congress and members of the committee of the Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) has increased in the past
five years. Statistics show that 23 percent of deputies to the Tibet People's
Congress and 21 percent of members of the Tibet Committee of the CPPCC are
women.
In addition, there are 707,000 women
employees in
In the past, according to the old
Tibetan laws, women were not allowed to participate in political or military
affairs. Prior to its peaceful liberation, women had low social status and no
legal rights in politics and economics in
Since the region's peaceful
liberation in the 1950s,