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Study of Women's Awareness about the Property Laws of Inheritance in Bihar

2024; Volume: 13; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.21275/sr24426145203

ISSN

2319-7064

Autores

Rina Kumari, Suheli Mehta,

Tópico(s)

South Asian Studies and Diaspora

Resumo

This study was conducted to investigate the women's awareness about property laws of inheritance in Bihar.For this purpose a sample of 300 women from five block of Patna district like Patna Sadar, Danapur, Phulwari Sharif, Punpun and Fatuhan were selected to collect the data through Purposive Random Sampling method.Results shows that educated women are more aware about the laws of property rights than uneducated women.Now women are taking legal helps in case of violating their property rights and education playing an important role into it.Thus raising the women education will help in achieving the goal of women empowerment and gender equality.

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