Author: Bayarmaa Dorj
AIT Library Call Number: AIT RSPR no.RD-00-2
Year: 2000
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Research Studies Project Report (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2000
Examination Committee: Barbara Earth (Chairperson); Kyoko Kusakabe, Myint Myint Thein (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Every process of transition in the former socialist countries has aimed at the consolidation of a free-market economy in the long term. In the short term, however, it has important social consequences for the population as a result of budget cuts in education, health, and other areas of social welfare. Who is being more severely affected by these changes? Differently situated groups in the social order as a result of class, gender, ethnicity or age tend to experience the impacts of economic transition in different ways. In Mongolia as a result of gender ideologies women have been more vulnerable to lay offs, losing their jobs, and as mothers and home providers they are also very directly affected by deteriorating social welfare systems. Thus, the crisis has affected eve1yday life more for women, who are more closely involved with the sustenance of the family than men. This study particular analyze how social changes has impacted gender and how the process of transition has affected educated women’s employment opportunities. The study combines both quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data were derived from published government statistics, NGOs surveys and research studies. Literature review effects of the economic transition on women in Mongolia complemented with primary data collected through an interview process with Mongolian women present at AIT. It involves a study of personal experiences in oral histories of women during the period of economic transition. Study shows those educated women who living now in Mongolia face a lot of pressures. They have limited time because they are responsible for official work, reproductive work, and income generating activities. One of the additional new works for educated women in market economy they take care of the poor and poorest from their relatives (parents, brothers, and sisters). This is due to declining social welfare sector in Mongolia during the transition. Educated women can not fully use their mental potential in their official job or their perso
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Japan
Note: A research submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of science
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