ABSTRACT
The equality of man and woman is only natural. The man no less than the woman was subject to the stern laws of nature. Everywhere in the world woman is shaking off the yoke of the dependence and demanding absolute equality—which will compel her in the end to renounce her privileges. Man and woman share equally the expenses of life, and since the woman is almost always physically the weaker her lot is always the heavier, which explains the precarious health of many Mongolian women. The woman by her constitution, by her general sentiments and habit of mind, is less fitted than man for the struggle of life. For the ordinary Mongolian unconcerned with dogmas woman is a being just like himself, neither more nor less. So much so, indeed, that the word woman no longer exists in the contemporary language; the same word, “ kun,” applies equally to either sex.
