The present paper discusses the status of tribal women in terms of their demography, health; education and employment. Despite constitutional protection and assurances, even after four and a half decades, their status is

The status of women in many parts of rural India is low. The situation is even worse among tribal communities or primitive societies, which constitute approximately 7.5 percent of the total population of the country [1]. In such

The term status of women is very elusive in concept and there are difficulties in defining as well as measuring it (for a detailed discussion on this subject, see Mason [1].