| Summary: | Before entering under the influence of the Islamic culture and civilization, Turkish and Mongolian societies were administered according to customary law (Töre and yasa). Later, customary law, in front of Islamic law (sharia), preserved its validity and functions at administrative level and among the folk people. These societies both kept their inhereted laws and continued to make new laws when they needed. Throughout history, different social, political factors which effect gender relations. In this article, in order to bring different approach to the debates of customary law (töre), roles of social and political factors in the changing gender roles and women’s status among the pre-Islamic Central Asia are examined from a comarative perspective
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