Socio - Economic Status Of Dali Women: A case study of Phalelung Rural Municipality Ward no 3 Thoklimba, Panchthar District

Abstract

The study entitled Socio-Economic Status of Dalit Women: A case studies of Phalelung Rural Municipality Ward no- 3 Thoklimba Panchthar Distric Nepal.In general, the objective of this research was to find out the socio-demographic and economic status of Dalit women and analyze the condition of gender discrimination among Dalits family.The design of the study is exploratory and descriptive. Two types of data primary and secondary are collected to complete the research work. Primary data is collected by various methods in the field and secondary data were collected from field. Respondents are selected using by randomly and purposive sampling method. In addition, interview, questionnaire and observation is used to obtain authentic information. People are involved in agriculture and their education and socio-economic status is not so good. Dalit women face violence from various sources. Violence against Dalit women is practiced in Nepali society on the basis of discriminatory social, cultural, economic, religious and political traditions and beliefs. Dalit women are double marginalized as they are women and dalit. They are facing discriminatory behavior in various sectors like education, economic, social, political, culture. Most of the women are limited in unproductive work. The study is concerned largely with the Dalit community. Dalitsare socially, educationally, politically and economically backward. Dalits are known as the disadvantage communities who are culturally categorized as the untouchable caste in society. Legally, it is not allowed to do discrimination in spear of social activities on the basis of caste and ethnicity even though it is still in practice. The researcher focuses on the backward poor community as treated untouchable Dalit’s Community, Nepal’s religious and cultural value which bears high and low caste. Even though uneducated community it is also burning issues until today. Education plays a crucial role to develop their languages, dialects, literature, arts, scripts, religion etc.