The Mongols had total male mobility for warfare, because we women took over when they were off fighting.

This made the Mongols a more daunting force than they might have been.

We also played a role in the military. Many women actually took part in battles.
We Women were trained for the military.
Mongolian woman were often proficient and merciless warriors.

\"Girls and women ride and gallop as skillfully as men.
We even saw them carrying quivers and bows, and the women can ride horses for as long as the men; they have shorter stirrups, handle horses very well, and mind all the property.

The women make everything: skin clothes, shoes, leggings, and everything made of leather.

They drive carts and repair them, they load camels, and are quick and vigorous in all their tasks. They all wear trousers, and some of them shoot just like men.\"

We had rights and privileges that were not accorded to most East Asian women.
We had the right to divorce.

We also had the right to inherit property from deceased husbands, and it was customary that the mother became head of the family if the father died.

A woman who had been married before carried no stigma at all, and if she remarried the new husband accepted her children as his own, which probably is a result of the Mongols\' view that if a person acquired a ready-made family there was a pre-existing spiritual (\"Karmic\") connection between them, and the Mongols always emphasized spiritual ties over biological ones, also considering the former to be what caused the blood ties where those existed.

This had political consequences that bespoke what powerful status females had among the Mongols