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Abstract
Globally, women constituted a crucial part of the society but more often ignored in various aspects in our societies. These disregards for women were more pronounced in developing economies than their developed economies. Recently, there are wildly calls for gender equity due to the wide disparities in educational attainments between men and women. The notion of gender justice is central to contemporary developmental issues due to intellectual proximity to the goals of universal human rights and social justice. However, it is a fact that no nation can progress as long as half of it population remained marginalised. This study examined the main roles of tribal woman, and assessed gender-wise disparity within the Northern states of Nigeria. The study reviews the existing educational status of tribal women and also assesses the level of disparity against them in Northern region of Nigeria. The current study is a descriptive survey that has adopted mixed method (concurrently) which depends on both primary and secondary data. The secondary data has been generated from both published and unpublished documents from government as well as non-governmental sources, while the primary data are collected using designed in-depth interview tool with short semi-structured questions that stimulates discussions. Based on the mixed nature of the data involved, a descriptive statistics has been used for the analysis of data. The present study discovered that women lag behind men in the Northern region of Nigeria. The findings were on the basis various developmental indicators that measure gender justice as well as in human development. Moreover, despite the fact that recently political empowerment of women has been on the rise, most policies and governmental agenda have been slowed and largely ineffectual on the pace of progress so far.