Write a article on women education in India
Answers
Answer:s one of the most populous countries in the world, India has abundant human resource, one of the critical factors that act as harbinger of prosperity. So much so that the World Bank thinks, India has the potential to become the human resource capital of the world.
In the coming two decades, India may have one of the youngest and largest working-age population in the world. In fact, about a million youth may enter the Indian labour market every month, the World Bank statistics reveal.
However, the multilateral agency sounds a caution: The prevailing gender roles and discriminating women may have a crippling impact. It identifies female labour force participation in the market at 31.2 percent and more than 50 million young women in India neither study nor work.
At the heart of the problem lies the fact that female population is still considered as second-class citizen in large swathes of the country. Access to tools enabling a healthy life – education, health, and wealth – for a female is disproportionate to males and upheld as a part of the ‘traditional’ mores.
According to the statistics released by the latest census of 2011, India’s female literacy rate is 65.46 percent, significantly lower than the world average of 79.7 percent. China, India’s neighbor and the other global human resource powerhouse, precedes with 82.7 percent female literacy rate.
The Right to Education (RtE) Act, introduced in 2009 making elementary education free and compulsory in the country, has been a shot in the arm for many. Nevertheless, statistics reveal the dismal gap between states – while states like Kerala paint a rosy picture of women’s education in India with 92.07 percent female literacy, relatively backward states such as Bihar with 51.5 percent female literacy rate highlight the importance of sustained campaign in favour of women’s education in India.