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Tibetan women’s lives improved through getting to work
By:China Tibet Online
update:October 29,2018

In recent years, Tibetan women's exchange with the outside world has expanded, they have had more studying and exchange opportunities with surrounding areas, inland China, and neighboring countries.

The All-China Women's Federation of Tibet Autonomous Region has actively answered the call of "Belt and Road" Initiative by increasing collaborations with nearby countries, organizing women entrepreneurs to visit Nepal, building trading platform for ethnic handicrafts, telling stories of Tibetan women entrepreneurs, and promoting the development of Chinese women. There have been 60 women's representatives who have visited Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan to study, and increased exchanges with Hong Kong and Macau-based women's groups. The federation has also sent its officials to Shanghai, Chongqing, Zhejiang, Hubei, Sichuan, and other provinces for sharing experiences, improving communication and exchanges among women's groups in China.

In recent years, Tibetan women's cause has improved in all areas, with women's employment rate at more than 40%, more equal education among the genders, lowered mortality rate for pregnant women of 102 in 100 thousand, lowered mortality rate for children under five-years-old of 13.7%. More women have participated in politics than ever before, more women are involved in social insurance programs, and women in poverty has drastically reduced in number, and women's lives have improved greatly.

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