Gender equality among asur, a primitive tribal community in relation to attitude towards education

This paper is aimed to find out the relation of attitude towards education with the variation of gender and literacy status among the Asur community, a particularly vulnerable aboriginal tribal community in West Bengal, India. A total of 240 numbers of samples from Cooch Bihar and Alipurduar districts, West Bengal were taken for this study. 1:1, face-to-face interview was conducted with a self-made inventory for data collection purpose. Descriptive as well as inferential statistics like ANOVA, ‘t’-test by applying Excel and SPSS-16.o software were used for data analysis. A non-significant difference between the attitude of the male and female, and also between literate and illiterate members of Asur community was found at 0.05 level. The Asur community, as a worth descendent of the primitive/ancient Indian culture, is non-patriarchal, i.e., their society is based on gender equality. This finding might be helpful to the policy planners, program designers and to the implementing agencies from the govt. or non-govt. authorities in devising provisions of education to this particularly vulnerable most primitive tribe of India and restructuring our activities to achieve that society with perfect gender equality.