Question

A debate is being organized in your class on the topic 'Educated Indian women get the
space they deserve in society'. Prepare four arguments for/against the topic.
(4)​

Answer 1

Women should be educated not only men as:-

1. Educated Indian Women get space they deserve in society as they earn money to help their family in case of financial crisis.
2. They also help in household chores like cooking etc. even after coming from their office.
3. If a woman is not educated they marriage but nowadays women is educated and has the right to move freely and they are not forced to marriage.
4. Indian Educated girls go abroad to earn more money to help their family.
5. Women education is an essential need to change their status in the society. Educated women can play a very
6. important role in the society for socio-economic development. Education eliminates inequalities and disparities
7. as the means of recovering their status within and out of their families. It is the key factor for women
8. empowerment, prosperity, development and welfare.
9. Women play a very important role in the progress of a family, society and country. In order to make democracy
10. successful in the country women education is necessary together with the men. Educated women are the real
11. source of happiness in the family. Education is one of the milestones for women empowerment because it
12. enables them to respond to the challenges, to confront their traditional role and change their life-style (Bhat,
13. 2015).
14. Egs- Malala Yousafzai

Some statements regarding to women education:

Women are the backbone of society. Mahatma Jyotirao Phule (1827, Pune) was a real philanthropist. He was the

one to open first girl school in India and credited with opening first home for widows of the upper caste and a

home for newborn girl children so that they can be saved from female infanticide. Some important thoughts are:

1. "If you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a woman you educate a family

(nation)". Dr. James Kwegyir Aggrey

2. To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant moral

power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Mahatma Gandhi

3. “There is no more valuable investment than in a girls’ education.” Ban Ki Moon, secretary-general,

United Nations

4. "Real empowerment of women would be possible only through education, encouragement of economic

self-dependence and procisional of opportunities enabling the unfolding of one's full potential."

President Pranab Mukherjee

5. I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education and I am afraid of no one."