Mongolian Women’s Hard-Won Victory - M.A.D. Investment Solutions: "Owing to its mining wealth, the fledgling democracy that shucked off communism in 1990 has earned medium-human development status in the Human Development Index (HDI) rankings.
Mongolia has been a bit of a star in HDI – a UN measurement based on life expectancy, literacy, education, standard of living, and quality of life – showing the fastest growth from 2000 to 2010, compared to the countries ranked above it. However, taking into consideration the new inequality-adjusted HDI, in use from 2010, the picture looks less promising: Mongolia registers a 14 percent loss, according to the latest UNDP country report. Poverty has stayed at 36 percent since the mid-1990s. Political representation of women in parliament was a mere 3.9 percent prior to the 2012 elections – one of the lowest rates globally.
However, females are more strongly represented in education than males – 60 to 70 percent of university students are women. Women also outrank men in professions such as doctors and teachers, with 80 percent of these positions filled by women. Even so salaries remain very low, according to Member of Parliament Luvsan Erdenechimeg."
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