Marital status of women in sartang society: a study in gender geography

The term gender is a socially constructed term referring to roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a society considers for both men and women. The term marriage is the formally recognized union of a man and a woman and it confers social status to them. It is a bond of two people for whole life until death. Sartang is one of the tribal group of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh (India). Like other ethnic groups of country they have their own customs which existed since the inception of human civilization. The prime objective of this paper is to find out the marital activities in Sartang tribe and the position of women in terms of marriage. The present study is also to examine the form of marriage in the locality and how far women get decision making power in marital affairs. The marital status of women in the study area is highlighted with the help of various data based on primary survey.