Interpret the tables deplicting the gender cocerns in Elementary and Secondary education for the period from 2005 to 2010 in India?
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The research aims to analyse the Indian education system as a way to understand why there is vast gender inequality there. Looking at the country’s gender statistics gives a good overall indication of what has been happening in India since the Millennium Development Goals were set, and how close they are to achieving various gender specific goals set by the United Nations and the Government of India. Women are crucial to a country’s development and the economic survival of their own personal households (Khalid, 2008). Very little recognition is given to the role they play in development, especially as in the developing world the majority are employed in the informal sector. Education remains the most important tool for enhancing women’s socio economic situation and statistically has been associated with better health, lower fertility rate, higher economic growth and better standards of living (Khan, 1993, Khalid, 2008). Especially in India, institutional, social, psychological and cultural boundaries limit a female’s potential (Jain, 2003, Khalid, 2008). As UNICEF (2014) found, many demand-side barriers still arise from sociocultural norms and so can be extremely difficult to change.