Proposal

I would like to apply for a Wheaton Research Partnership grant to continue work on the effects of modernization on women in Bhutan. This summer we developed a Likert Scale to measure Bhutanese attitudes toward Buddhism, marriage and family, education, work, the environment and community life in Bhutan. Next semester, we would like to determine the reliability and validity of the instrument and test it on a small sample of RTC students.  In addition, we will work with 3-4 Bhutanese cultural informants to identify key cultural values and to address linguistic issues.  In the future, perhaps with an outside grant or with support from Wheaton, we hope to be able to use the attitude scale together with qualitative interviews to understand how modernization has affected cultural values in three generation of Bhutanese women.