Female Lawmakers in Mongolia establish parliamentary group to promote gender equality
ULAN BATOR, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The newly elected female lawmakers of the Mongolian parliament have established a cross-party parliamentary group to address issues related to gender equality and children protecting, local media reported on Monday.
The number of female lawmakers has been tripled in the new parliament with nine female lawmakers succeeding in winning seats in the country's supreme legislative body.
This was considered as a big progress in promoting Mongolian women's representation in parliament, lifting the female representation in parliament to 12 percent from last parliament's 3.9 percent.
The group aims at tackling the gender-based issues and promoting women's participation in politics, economics and social development.
But this parliamentary group is an unofficial one because Mongolian law stipulates that only political parties can form groups within the parliament.
Gender imbalance widely exists in political and economic spheres in Mongolia and women's representation in parliament has always been low. Mongolia has taken measures to increase women's representation in parliament by specifying a minimum of 20 percent of the candidates nominated by political parties in the parliamentary election should be women.
The number of female lawmakers has been tripled in the new parliament with nine female lawmakers succeeding in winning seats in the country's supreme legislative body.
This was considered as a big progress in promoting Mongolian women's representation in parliament, lifting the female representation in parliament to 12 percent from last parliament's 3.9 percent.
The group aims at tackling the gender-based issues and promoting women's participation in politics, economics and social development.
But this parliamentary group is an unofficial one because Mongolian law stipulates that only political parties can form groups within the parliament.
Gender imbalance widely exists in political and economic spheres in Mongolia and women's representation in parliament has always been low. Mongolia has taken measures to increase women's representation in parliament by specifying a minimum of 20 percent of the candidates nominated by political parties in the parliamentary election should be women.
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