Gender Discrimination in Education among the Muslims: A Case Study in an Indian Village for Identifying the Key Factors.

Gender discrimination is more frequent among the ethnic minorities in the domain of education. This study among the Muslims in India shows that the Muslims always lag behind the Hindus in literacy rate and there is widening gap between literacy rates of men and women. With particular reference to a bi-ethnic village, it further reveals that discrimination generates from the socio-economic context of a particular community and that the Muslim women are experiencing discrimination in education due to their parents' poor economic condition, lack of awareness, conservativeness, feeling of social insecurity of their girls, and their early marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]