50.5 percent or 1,232,800 of Mongolia's population are women. 61,300 women of those head the family. The educational achievement of women is improving year by year.

To date, 11.8 percent of Mongolian parliament members, 9.1 percent of deputy ministers, 16.9 percent of chiefs of agencies and organizations, 4.5 per cent of presidents of Citizens' Representative Meetings of city and aimags and 3.3 per cent of governors of aimags and districts are women. In recent years, the percentage of tertiary educated women has increased from 55.0 percent to 65.4 percent. The National Program for Advancement of Mongolian Women (NPAW) adopted by the Government in 1996 represented progress in advancing women's status in Mongolia. Also a National Program to Satisfy Gender Equity will be implemented from 2003 until 2020 to build a comfortable environment so that women can equally participate in social development and equally receive the fruits of social growth.

As for employment, 64.5 percent of workers in educational sector , 71.3 percent of workers in the social welfare sector and 63 percent of judges are women. The unemployment level of women stood at 18.2 percent as of the 2000 population census. Mongolia has joined around 20 international agreements on Human Rights and one is the UN Convention on eliminating all forms of discrimination towards women.

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