These Nepalese Nuns Are Literally Fighting For Gender Equality, And What They Do Is Badass
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While Nepal is by no means the worst place in South Asia to be a woman, it probably couldn’t be counted as one of the best, either. For example, the World Economic Forum’s 2014 Gender Gap Index surmised that school attendance for girls and boys was more or less equal, but that men still outstrip women in literacy rates by 24 percent, as only 47 percent of women in the country can read. There is one group of women, however, who are fighting hard to buck this trend.
But they’re not activists or feminist intellectuals. In fact, they’re nuns who belong to the 800-year-old Drukpa sect of Buddhism. The most widely-practiced religion in Bhutan, Drukpa is popular throughout Himalayan areas. Its name means “dragon,” though it additionally relates to the clap of thunder.
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