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Women education is very important for the proper social and economic growth of the country. Nowadays, the importance of women's education is growing day by day. Education for women is the best way to improve the health, nutrition and economic status of a household that constitute a micro unit nation development. But position of girl's education is not improving according to determined parameter for women. Even though the Indian government has taken some measures such as the 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan', 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao', 'Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana' and also the government of West Bengal special scheme for girl child, i.e. 'Kanyashree Scheme', but the attitude towards girl child is very negative in our society even on today. Hence, this study is mainly framed to design to know the educational status of women along with the socio economic status, marital status, first baby gender preference, and mother's age at first baby born. The study has been conducted during the month of September to October 2023 in Moyna block under Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal. It has been found that about 42% women whose age during marriage was below 18 years in Moyna block of Purba Medinipur district. In the study area, 30% women under studied expressed their desire regarding first baby gender as 'boy'. In the study area, surprisingly no woman wants a baby girl as her first child. It has been found that 60.68% women's age were below 19 years when their first baby was born. Though there is no illiterate woman in the study area , but only 5.09%, 5.09%, 20.38% passed Class VIII, matriculation, and higher-secondary examination respectively. About 15.28% and 6.36% women passed B.A. and M.A. respectively, though their employment scenario is not good, most of them are housewife.