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Women are nearly the half of the total population size of a society. The economic empowerment of women is predominantly depends on educational achievement of women in a society. This is not only true that education is an entry point of various opportunities but also educational achievement of women helps her to making self-confident in all spheres of activities of a society, including full participation on the basis of equality in the decision-making process to access power of social and economic aspects of society. It improves quality of life such that, attaining education one becomes more aware about socio-economic obstacles. In Assam, it has reordered that gender gaps between male and female have reduced in primary and secondary level of education, but the aforementioned disparities still exists in higher education. Large number of girls especially from the rural areas drop out before reaching any higher education. Therefore, there is need to develop a flexible, accessible and equitable education system in which women along with the men counterpart can easily fulfill their aspiration and to create a responsible develop society with overcoming their social obligations. Through this research paper an attempt is made to study on present status of women in higher education in Assam and find out key factors which will focus to bring out educational inequality among men and women and their solutions.