Dimple Thapa is a People's Democratic Party politician and minister from Bhutan.
[1] She studied for her first degree at the Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry in India and she then took a master's degree, again in forestry, at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria.
Only six women were candidates in the final round and only Thapa and Dorji Wangmo were elected.
[3] Dorji Choden, who had been the country's first woman minister, lost her seat to a man despite her experience.
It is speculated that rural voters see politics as a job for a man,[4] although at a local level candidates others have followed Namgay Peldon's 2008 example[5] and they have been elected.