In Amma's generation, only 4% of village women were educated at the time, as most women worked due to the relatively long distances to reach the highest ranks. (Wadley, 2) The next generation had better access to schooling as villages built primary and middle schools in the 1950s, but any higher grade was still off limits for most women. Most women remained illiterate as the overall female literacy rate in the 1960s only increased to 9% (Wadley, 3). Those women without education remained in the same role within their families while continuing to contribute to the family. However, the 1980s demonstrated an increase in education levels in India, with more schools opening, which represents a change as more women attended school, thus becoming increasingly