ABSTRACT
This conclusion briefly summarises the 22 narratives in this collection of voices of Tibetan women. It notes the relative freedom some women enjoyed in marital and extramarital relationships. It also notes that single mothers and other women of relatively low social status, as well as some older women of the traditional nobility were better off, or at least did not fare any worse, from the 1960s. On the other hand, the women who pursued professions, including medicine, were often disadvantaged, sometimes tragically, in the political turmoil of the second half of the twentieth century. Minorities women and women who adhered to religious vocations generally managed to negotiate with considerable skill and hardship the adjustments to their new reality in the last quarter of the century. Performers of indigenous arts fared rather better in their later lives, while the sole sportswoman, of humble origins, achieved the remarkable feat of scaling Mt Everest. Finally, the youngest women benefitted from universal education, something completely beyond the wildest dreams of their compatriots of a century earlier.
