Educational Attainment of Women Tea Garden Workers: A Sociological Study in Six Tea Gardens of Upper Assam
Volume-XIII, Issue-III, April 2025
Volume-XIII, Issue-III, April 2025 |
Received: 11.03.2025 | Accepted: 17.04.2025 | Published Online: 30.04.2025 | Page No: 130-135 | ||||
Educational Attainment of Women Tea Garden Workers: A Sociological Study in Six Tea Gardens of Upper Assam Monika Gogoi, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, M.D.K.G. College, Dibrugarh, India Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India Prof (Dr.) Pranjal Sarma, Department of Sociology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India | ||
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Women constitute almost 50 percent of the total workforce of tea industry in Assam (Duara &Mallick, 2019). Although many policies have been implemented to improve educational level of women but position of women tea garden workers in educational sector is very low. Thus, this paper tries to discuss the educational attainment of women tea garden workers in selected tea gardens and factors of lower educational attainment by using mixed-method approach. From the study it is found that most (55.83%) of the women tea garden workers only studied till primary level. The factors responsible for low education are early marriage, economic problems, and language barriers, non- availability of schools and lack of importance to female education. | ||
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