Visit a remote village/slum area or a colony in your neighborhood and identify any 5 girl children who do not have access to education/drop-out from school and find out the reasons for the same.
Answers
When speaking of illiteracy amongst girl child in India and slum areas, there may be many causes behind it.
• One of the major causes is the formation of the society system within the country as girl child is never given equal priority as compared to boy child for education.
• Education also takes too much of time to reach the remote villages and other rural areas along with slum dwellers.
• In certain traditions and religions (minorities) women are also considered as lower in social status as compared to man.
• Most families in rural areas also get the girl child married at a very young age forcing her to give up education at earlier age.
• Gender based inequality has also forced girl child to give up education and in most cases girl fetus are also aborted before time.
• Social discrimination is also one of the factors as they are discriminated on the basis of economy and social status.
• Most occupations are also man centered where the role for girls are limited.
• Most rural families feel that it is not important to educate girls till graduation as they just have to work at homes after marriage.
Explanation:
Visit a remote village/slum area or a colony in your neighborhood and identify any 5 girl children who do not have access to education/drop-out from school and find out the reasons for the same