Tibetan Women's NGOs at the Nexus of Social Change (2012)

Undergraduate: McKay Roozen

Faculty Advisor: Lauren Leve
Department: International & Area Studies

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Through research gathered in the summer of 2011, I quickly learned that Tibetan women’s NGOs in Qinghai, China, face many barriers to success as they work to create social change through the empowerment of women. When analyzing these barriers from the perspective of Tibetan and Chinese culture and society, it is clear that the biggest challenge is the pushback from actors in the communities who have incentives to prevent these social changes. My research will critically examine how these women are prevented from creating progressive change in their own community by their Tibetan peers and community members in addition to the Chinese government.