Socio-economic obstacles in Education of Muslim Women: A study of Aligarh District

This paper is an attempt to analyse the Socio-economic problems of Muslim women’s education in villages of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. This study is based on the secondary sources of data obtained from the census report (2011), Sachar committee report, Gender inequality index, Human development report and other published sources to throw light on the actual status of Muslim women’s education. The present study has tried to find out the major problems faced by women who wish to pursue education at school and at higher education institutions. The finding of the study reveals that the educational status of Muslim in general and Muslim women’s in particular, is not satisfactory and need special attention. This study also highlights that 42.7% of the total population of the Muslims in India are illiterate; among the Muslim women, illiteracy is as high as 48.11%. Overall the major finding of the study revealed that Muslim women have faced a double disadvantage in terms of accessing educational institutions, low educational attainment and low educational quality.