A Study on the Need of Women Education for Socio- Economic Development in Rural Assam

Abstract

Education is the liberating force cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances. Education plays prime role in economic and social development. The most significant factor that determines the quality of people is education. Education has to be recognized that for developing states like Assam, to make major progress in social and economic development, there is need to invest significant effort on resources in the education system The findings of the research work shows that the literate women are able to engage in different socio-economic activities. Illiterate women confined only farm sector, but literate women engaged themselves in self employment and service activities. The findings of the study suggest that there is a positive correlation between female literacy and age at marriage, size of family and expenditure pattern of respondent.