Table of Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Social Institutions
- 3 Key Gender Statistics
- 1 Education
- 2 Health
- 3 Employment
- 4 References
- 5 See Also
- 6 External Links
- CEDAW: ratified on 20 July 1981
- Optional Protocol to CEDAW: ratified on 28 March 2002
- National CEDAW report: 2014
- Maputo Protocol: N/A
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325): no national action plan
The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) measures gender-based discrimination in social norms, practices and laws across 160 countries. The SIGI comprises country profiles, a classification of countries and a database; it serves as a research, policy and advocacy tool for the development community and policy makers. The SIGI covers five dimensions of discriminatory social institutions, spanning major socio-economic areas that affect women’s lives: discriminatory family code, restricted physical integrity, son bias, restricted resources and assets, and restricted civil liberties. The SIGI’s variables quantify discriminatory social institutions such as unequal inheritance rights, early marriage, violence against women, and unequal land and property rights.
In the Social Institutions and Gender Index 2014 Edition, Mongolia’s score was 0.0345 placing it among countries with a very low level of discrimination in social institutions. It had low or very low levels of discrimination in family code, resources and assets, and civil liberties, but medium levels in physical integrity and son bias. Read the full country profile and access the data here: http://www.genderindex.org/country/mongolia
Key Gender Statistics
- In 2013, 94% of girls were enrolled in primary school compared to 96% of boys.
- In 2013, the ratio of female to male primary school enrolment was 98%.
- There is no recent data available on secondary enrolment rates.
- In 2010, 98% of women and men aged 15+ were literate.
- In 2010, women and men had on average 9 years of schooling .
- In 2013, there were 43 maternal deaths, representing 68 deaths for 100,000 births.
- In 2013, the adolescent fertility rate was 18 births per 1,000 adolescent girls.
- In 2010, 22% of women had an unmet need for family planning.
- In 2013, 60 % of the female working-age population was part of the labour force, while 72% of the male working-age population was part of the labour force.
- In 2013, women represented 46% of the total labour force.
- In 2012, 49.5% of women in the labour force were in vulnerable employment compared to 53% of men in the labour force.
- In 2011, 32% of women in the labour force worked in the agricultural sector compared to 33% of men in the labour force.
- World Bank (2015), World Development Indicators (database), http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi (accessed16 July 2015).
- Barro R. and J.W. Lee (2014), Educational Attainment Dataset, v.2.0, http://www.barrolee.com/
- Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)
- Gender and Land Rights Database
- Women, Business and the Law: Creating economic opportunity for women
- UN Women Asia and the Pacific
- Report of the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality
- HRW Mongolia
- OECD Gender Index Mongolia
- UNESCO Institute of Statistics Mongolia
- Mongolia Report – Beijing + 20
- UNICEF Mongolia
- UNFPA Mongolia