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Participation of women in higher education is one of the important development indexes. In many national and international forum, women education has been regarded as one of the benchmarks to measure societal development. Compared to the developed countries the status of India in women participation in higher education is not satisfactory. The Northeastern states being landlocked and geographically isolated, the participation of women in higher education is highly challenging. This paper tries to explore the women participation in higher education among the eight northeastern states. The study further tries to explore whether matrilineal society has any role to play in deciding the participation of women in higher education. The analysis is done based on secondary data collected from the Ministry of higher education, India. Among the states, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Nagaland show higher gender parity index (GPI) which indicates GPI favouring females. Among the states, five states have GPI above the national average (.92). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Family, the first agency through which a child learns the sociability and skills of life has been one of the key factors which shape the personality, self concept, social adjustment and other traits of a person. Adolescent period is one of the most crucial period of once life when a child experiences physical and mental changes. The way an adolescent gets counselling and support in a family determines his or her personality in later years. The present paper is an attempt to study the influence of family relationship on self concept of adolescents in Guwahati city. The study shows that there is insignificant relationship between family relationship and self concept with no significant difference between self concept of boys and girls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]