Women of Nepal
Profiles of Nepali Women
This website is managed by Working Women Journalists (WWJ), an organization of professional women journalists in Nepal (www.wwjnepal.com). The WWJ received a donation from Toyota Foundation in Japan which has enabled it to produce these profiles and website.
Profiles of Women
Nepal is now in the most dramatic and most important period in her history.
After the ten-year armed conflict followed by the 19-day Janaandolan (People's Movement) in 2006, Nepal succeeded in abolishing a 240-year-old monarchy and brought about a republic. 601 people from various political parties in the Constituent Assembly, of which 33% are women, are currently in the process of making a new constitution which will form the basis of a new state.
Nepal has never seen such a large number of women representatives involved in the process of state building. Women have made up the biggest class discriminated against and marginalized by society and the state in this country. A huge amount of women participated in the anti-state insurgency launched by the Maoists on February 13, 1996, putting an official end to the previous rule on November 23, 2006.
Nepali women have been struggling against traditional and conservative norms, culture and thoughts in their society for a long time, first while standing alone within their own families, and then in organizing their colleagues in society. Through this website, we would like to introduce the profiles of those women who have stories of struggle in their own lives and are now part of the leadership to build a new Nepal. Our plan is to launch twenty women's profiles in the first batch, and then introduce ten new profiles per month from then on.