Logging is restricted and television banned. A matrilineal society, the Bhutanese pass land through daughters, and husbands move into their wives' homes. Women are honored for weaving the traditional cloth that everyone must wear in public. Now 49, she built the home that she shares with her disabled husband, Namgay, their five children, and their oldest daughter's family.
Men plow the field and make it ready to plant.
I've wanted to plow when there weren't enough men, but I never have because I don't know how. The men won't teach me because they believe that if a woman starts plowing, the ox will start to cry and won't work properly. I hope my son and my daughter, who is in school, will leave the village and get work in an office. I was the only daughter, so my mother didn't send me to school. Now I have to be out in the fields whether it's sunny or rainy or very windy.