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In India tribal communities are marginalized and continue to suffer discrimination. Tribal mothers face more discrimination still there fighting to achieve their equal right and gender justice. The attitude of gender issue is varying person to person and area to area. Still date a misbelieve exists that tribal (Santal) mother have usually enjoyed a higher social status then other mother from the general cast. This study is design to find out the gender discrimination among santal mothers. The selective area is Debra block under Medinipur West district. The investigators selected 50 santal mothers by using purposive sampling techniques. The samples were in the age group 20-40 and educationally 4 are illiterate,21 have primary education,8 have upper primary education,,5 have secondary, 7 have higher secondary and 5 are graduate. 41 sample are house wife and involved in daily labour, 9 are service holder, all of them are living in rural areas. For data collection the investigator used a questionnaire having seventeen items, developed by the present investigators. Results shows that the attitude of santal mothers towards their daughter is positive and gender discrimination though normal in the male dominated patriarchal societies. Its negative impact towards daughters and sexual subjective towards sons were not found. Most of the mother in the santal community remains poor and they need the special support from government and the non government organization.