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11.Education-The Inclusive Growth Strategy for Women Empowerment in Indian Context

In Indian economy, the Five Year plans have generally been the fountainheads of policy for growth. Globally inclusive growth is necessary for sustainable development and equitable distribution of wealth and prosperity. This orientation is most visibly manifested in the theme of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan. Inclusive growth adopts a long term perspective and is concerned with sustained growth. For growth to be sustained in the long run, it should be broad-based across sectors and different sections of the society. Keeping the theme 'Empowerment of Women' of Tenth Five Year Plan, the inclusive growth approach takes a longer term perspective if it is viewed through women empowerment in terms of economic status of women and its relationship with education. Any analysis of Indian society without taking caste into consideration is not complete. The present paper examines interrelationship among women development in terms of economic status of women, caste and level of education and finally view the inclusive growth in India. The study highlights the relationship between education level and economic status of women only in high caste group and focuses if education is to have a central role in relation to achieving 'inclusive growth' for the women in Indian society then there needs to be a fundamental rethinking on the provisioning of education in India.

Education-The Inclusive Growth Strategy for Women Empowerment in Indian Context

A STUDY ON GIRLS AND WOMEN'S ACCESS ON EDUCATION IN INDIA -A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ANDHRA PRADESH

Mukt Shabd Journal, 2021

Education makes a vital contribution to sustainable development through the generation and dissemination of knowledge. Education leads to enlightenment as it facilitates knowledge, skills and abilities. It helps a person with average intelligence to identify the difference between right and wrong and hence good and bad practices in the society. In a way education helps a man to be more civilized, a responsible human being towards his family and society at large. Women were not encouraged to come out to public spaces, rather education was considered to help them in dispensing their gender roles or domestic roles more efficiently. Gender discrimination, though not new to Indian society, has been the reason for denial of education and thereby career opportunities to women in India. In this background the present paper focus to depict the Access of Education status on girls and women's were analyzed through NSS 75th round (

Need and Significance of Socio-economic and Educational Equality for Women in India

isara solutions, 2022

Development is a human centred process. People are both the ends and the means in this process. Human resources development applies equally to both women and men. Women play an equal role even in the sustainability of development throughout the world. But the fruits of development are distributed unequally among males and females. Women are most powerful weapon of the development of any developed or developing countries but still women lag far behind men in most parameters of socioeconomic development and as well as the human development indices. They are facing most challenges and problems in their lives. Today their contribution in the economy is neglected and treated like a weaker section even after their hard work. This is especially true for the women in India, where they are 48.2 % of total population of 1210 million, with more than 65 percent living in rural areas. Economic and social equality for females are considered vital for the progress and development of any nation, on focusing women condition in developing society like India. The aim of this paper is to examine the significance and need of socioeconomic equality for women in India. The study relies on secondary data sources and collected through literature survey.

An Analysis of the Indian Further Education System Regarding Gender Inequality

2021

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 c...

Dimensions of Gender Inequality in India and Education as an Instrument for Women Empowerment

Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2014

The Indian society has been, from the ages, an exemplary society in terms of dichotomy practiced towards what is claimed and what is manifested. The issue of "Gender Inequality" is the concern of this paper. Sociologically, the word gender refers to the socio-cultural definition of man and woman; the way societies distinguish men and women and assign them social roles. The distinction between sex and gender was introduced to deal with the general tendency to attribute women's subordination to their anatomy. For ages it was believed that the different characteristics, roles and status accorded to women and men in society are determined by sex, that they are natural and therefore not changeable. Gender is seen closely related to the roles and behavior assigned to women and men based on their sexual differences. As soon as a child is born families and society begin the process of gendering. The birth of the son is celebrated, the birth of a daughter is an unwelcomed incident; sons are showered with love, respect, better food and proper health care. Bringing up a daughter is considered like "watering a plant in someone else" courtyard". All these differences are gender differences and they are created by society. It stems not only from pre-existing differences in economic endowments between women and men but also from pre-existing gendered social norms and social perceptions. Many developing countries including India have displayed gender inequality in education, employment and health. India has witnessed gender inequality from its early history due to its socioeconomic and religious practices that resulted in a wide gap between the position of men and women in the society. This is despite the fact that India has had women as its constitutional and executive heads in the past. This paper attempts to explain the status of gender inequality in the Indian context. The paper contends that education might be an effective tool to bridge the gap of this gender inequality provided that there should be willingness to manifest what is theoretically discussed and preached.

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