Women Play Big Role in TibetWomen in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have become the driving force behind all corners of local society.According to incomplete statistics, there are now 1.2 million women in Tibet, nearly half of the region's total population. Thirty percent of Tibet's officials are women, as are 40 percent of the total technical personnel. "The quality and status of Tibetan women grow with each passing day," said Yexe Yangzom, director of the pediatric department of the Tibet No. 1 People's Hospital. Yangzom was one of the first female college graduates in Tibet. She has been working in the medical field for more than three decades since graduating from a medical collage in Beijing in the 1970s. "My family were slaves for generations. The majority of women in old Tibet were in the lower stratum of the society. They were forced to give birth in the cattle or sheep pens as child-bearing is a dirty thing," she said. Nowadays, most Tibetan women give birth in hospitals and are taught healthy child-rearing techniques, she added. Yanggim is the first woman lawyer in Tibet and has been named one of the ten best lawyers in China. The first group of Tibetan flight attendants took their maiden flight early this year. They are scheduled to work for Southwest China Airlines flights and serve English and Tibetan-speaking passengers as well as those who speak Chinese. Axi, 44, opened the first inn in Qamdo in 1984. Over the past decade and more, she worked 15-16 hours a day and succeeded in expanding the inn into a two-story hotel. She became a millionaire and won the titles of " Get-rich Champion" and "Model Woman." |
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