The situation of the women including the educated and semi-educated young women and men in Plantations could be summarized as follows:

• The ethnic-based racial educational policy by the Government's Education. Authorities cause poor academic achievements by the Plantation Students. As a result, most students do not qualify for compulsory subjects in the examinations. This hinders the upward educational as well as employment mobility of the Plantation Youths. A considerable number of them are young women.

• Comparatively the young men in Plantation have letter access to limited external employment and income-earning opportunities than the females.

• Being Tamils these young women are by large kept away from state-run skill and Vocational Training Centers which in training only the Sinhala medium.

• A cultural attribution for free external mobility for better livelihood perspectives for young women's skill dominates.

• Postponement of Marriage perspectives.

• The danger of becoming the victim of undesirable elements is mainly due to increased middlemen infiltration among Plantation Communities in recent times.

• Presently totally the entire Plantation population faces a lot of problems due to the sale price of Tea in the Sale Market. Some Plantations refused to pay their wages for the non-sale of the Tea produced by them. Now the Plantation People have to find a new venture for their lives.