Exploring Gender Bias in Family Property Inheritance Through Women and the Law

Abstract

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.