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SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH WOMEN EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY ON THE SANTAL AT BALIPARA OF BIRBHUM, WEST BENGAL Sampa Das Ph.D Research Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------
ABSTRACT-This paper presents the socio economic benefits of female education. Basically santals are backward classes. For their development women education is most important because educating girls lead to a number of social benefits and women’s education increases the income of their families which is the part of economic growth of society. This study is qualitative in nature and the case studies and informal semi-structured in-depth interview were used to conduct the study. Women education is very slowly, who got educational are not highly educated. The women of this community are mainly labourers and helper with low income. This study concludes that socio-economic benefits can be possible by women education.
desired family size and that this, in turn, is because education raises the value of women's economic activities by raising the labour market rewards from going out of the home for work. Education of women improves child health because of educated mothers' greater knowledge of the importance of hygiene and of simple remedies. Women in a tribal society play a vital role in their social, cultural, economic and religious ways of life and are considered as an economic asset in their society. But they are still lagging far behind in the various walks of life like education, employment, good health and economic empowerment etc. Development may be understood as enabling weaker sections like poor women, especially tribal women to acquire and to possess power and resources, in order to make decisions on their own. The tribal women being economically poor and socially backward live at a low level of scale of the quality life. Thus the tribal women often face the problems of food insecurity, malnutrition, lack of access to health care services and education and the victim of domestic violence and rape. Unlike the well organised modern communities, the tribal communities and tribal women lag far behind in social networking. This is the nature and dimension of socio-economic disempowerment problem among the tribal women in India.
KEY WORDS-WOMEN, EDUCATION, SOCIO-ECONOMIC, GROWTH, SANTAL. 1.INTRODUCTION Education is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. The wealth of knowledge acquired by an individual after studying particular subject matters or experiencing life lessons that provide an understanding of something. Education seeks to develop some desirable knowledge, understanding, skills, interests, attitudes and critical 'thinking. That is an individual acquires knowledge of history, geography, arithmetic, languages and sciences. It develops some understanding about life, the complex human relations, social needs and soon. Education is a key part of strategies to improve individuals' well-being and societies' economic and social development.
The Santals are one of the largest and the indigenous tribal communities in India. They are an agricultural tribe, from time immemorial they have cleared forests, toiled the land and produced food for subsistence. They are also labourers. They domesticate animals. They are practicing hunting gathering and so on. Basically they belong to economic backward classes.
Women's education is of greater importance than men's education. Increases in the amount of female education in regions tend to correlate with high levels of development. Educating girls leads to a number of social and economic benefits. Female schooling raises human capital, productivity, and economic growth as much as male schooling does and it also seen that the social benefits from investing in female education are far greater than those from investing in male education. Specifically, female education has powerful effects on the total fertility rate (and hence on population growth), the infant mortality rate, the child survival, and on child health and nutrition. Female education decreases the fertility rate by reducing
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2.OBJECTIVES To examine the educational achievement of the Santal women. To analyze the importance of women education for socio-economic growth.
3.MATERIALS AND METHODS The qualitative and quantitative research approaches are used for collecting the field data. The secondary data which is included journals, books, articles, conferences, published and unpublished research work were conducted from
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