My mother, Ellen Kuo. lives in America. She is 51 years old.

She has four

children and works at the VA as a physician assitant, and her husband works at multiple
places as an emergency medicine surgeon and medical school teacher. The woman I am
making a comparison of her is Lkhamsuren Oyuntsetseg, who is 33, has two children and
is a pharmacist. The two of them are very satisfied with their current lives. They wouldnt
change very much about the current condition of their lives.
Something that contrasts between the two is their parents. My mother has two sets
of parents, one of her mothers is deceased. The Mongolian womens parents are both
deceased, her mother died when she was very small. My mother last asked for advice
from her parents approximately 15 years ago. Their relationship is quite close, but has
had limitations because of a geographical gap. My mother feels that she did not have
many expectations from her parents to live up to. She was not pushed to aspire after a
certain career, and she feels that if she had more encouragement from her parents, she
would have gone to medical school and became a physician.
My mother only lives with her immediate family, while the Mongolian women
occasionally has his fathers large family and their children stay with their family for
extended amounts of time. My mother got her house from a real estate agent, while
Lkhamsuren and her husband Batsuur saved up money and collected building material,
Batsuur did the construction. Her house has running water and other commodities, but
Lkhamsurens house does not. My mother is happy with the current area she lives in, but
when she retires, she would like to live ion a metropolitan area, a city where most places
are walking distance.

While Lkhamsuren says she is poorer than other people, my mother says that she
is happy with her current financial state and finds the cushion of her financial security
comforting. The two of them do have regrets in their careers and other aspects of their
life, they are proud of theirselves for getting to where they currently are.
Lkhamsuren wants her children to get more opportunities in education than she
did, and she has specific career hopes for each of her two children. My mother wants us
to be able to get as much education as we desire, to be fulfilled in our relationships and
occupations, that they will be able to provide for their children as she has been able to
provide for hers.
The two womens mothers lives were significantly different from their own lives.
My mothers mother did not work full time regularly, had a significantly larger amount of
neighborhood support and did not have to transport her children to various activities.
Lkhamsurens mother lived in an entirely different society, a centrally planned economy.
Lkhamsuren lives in a free-market society.
Lkhamsuren and my mother have different perspectives on the current state of
women in the world. While my mother believes there is a small gap between men and
women, and thinks women have as much equality as they want, but Lkhamsuren believes
that women are not in a very good state in Mongolia and in the world overall. The two are
very happy with their marriages, and them and their husbands are equals in their homes.
The two couples both met through their work, they began to form an emotional bond and
married. Their marriages were not arranged or based on need, like in other countries or
situations. Lkhamsuren and my mother have significant differences in their lives but are
both in stable, satisfactory conditions.