Women Education in India : with Special Reference to Advent of Modern Education Amongst Women in Assam

Throughout centuries gender inequality has been a crucial downfall to women’s education. Till this day women in multiple countries still such as Cambodia, Pakistan, and Morocco are denied the opportunity to pursue an education and are even persecuted if they attempt to. In other countries like Guatemala, poverty is the main factor as to why women are likely to not receive an education because families would rather send their sons simply because he is a boy. Many women in these countries are illiterate because boys are favored to receive an

Education is very essential in advancing the lives of many people in developing nations; diverse partners and governments have teamed up to bolster the advancement of essential education in developing countries. Education is broadly viewed as the course to financial flourishing, the way to logical and innovative headway, the way to battle unemployment, the establishment of social value, and the spread of political and social imperatives (Chapman & Austin, 2002). While progress has been made in expanding the quantity of young children enlisted in schools, there are still numerous who are not selected and who do not finish the o level education. The confirmation demonstrates that the systems expected to handle education issues will need to fluctuate and address the current crises in developing countries through implementation of education policies and programs to enable gender equity in nurturing skills of the their population through education.

For many years women in America have experienced many different situations in the education arena. Situations that women experienced were very different than the experiences males experienced in the same classroom and women expectations were also different than that of their male counterparts. Renzetti and Curran wrote in their Fifth Edition of Women, Men and Society that women were expected to not only attend to their studies but also attend to the males’ laundry, cleaning their rooms and meal service. (Page 101.) Women were expected to keep silent and were only allowed to major in degrees like Home Economics and Teaching degrees. Was this treatment of women the same for women in other cultures? This paper will show that women in

One of the global issues that women in developing overseas countries face is a barrier in education. Females in India will have a different experience of education inequality than females living in Australia. The number of out of school children in India 64% are girls, which is the equivalent of two-thirds of all children whom are illiterate ageing from 15 - 24 being female. Girls in Australia receive equal education throughout the country, this is evident in my micro world of a year 12 high school student. Although I am fortunate to live in a country where my education is not limited because of my gender, it does not mean all women are given this critical right of learning.

Gender bias is a huge barrier that prevent girls from gaining knowledge at schools. That is the reason why illiteracy rate of female is increasing. In some countries, especially, in Asia, prior generations usually consider that girls don’t have to access with high education because their main responsibility is being wives. The generations argues that female’s task is housework, so they don’t need to get educational certificates in order to apply for a job. Because of the gender bias, girls have no chance to get knowledge from school and become illiterate

Educating woman will create a world with ethical values and peace, a sustainable living environment for the future and younger generation, a growth in the economy of the nation and communities that tries till success

In the Hindu tradition, their texts give little to no attention to women and devote the dominance to the father, husband, or sons. Women who lived in the fifteenth century in Rajasthan rejected marriage, grew in their spiritual life, and tested the limits of the caste system. Meanwhile, in today’s world Hindu women are gaining leadership roles in India and are beginning to be inspiring spiritual teachers. Hindu women in South Asia and Southeast Asia are seen as the guardians of beliefs and rituals for their families (133).

“Western form of educations introduced [were] mainly to male children. In many places women were not allowed to go to school at the initial stage” (Modupe).

Traditionally, an Indian woman had only four roles and those were; Her role as a daughter, wife, sister, and lastly, a mother. The women in today’s time however are experiencing far reaching changes and are entering into new fields that were unknown to them. They are actively participating in social, economic and political activities. Unlike the older times, women today have received higher education.

First of all, in the world that we live in today many girls education is being neglected and ignored mainly in developing countries. Girls education is mainly being ignored because many countries just don't have the money to set up schools for girls because in most of these nations boys are sent to school rather than girls and cant be educated in the same places for religious reasons. It is reported by The Global Partnership for education that In Yemen 28% of girls were dropped out of schools by parents because there was a lack of single sex classrooms and female teachers. ( Global Partnership for education secretariat). Another major reason girls education is neglected because in many countries were girls don't go to school there are agencies that work against girls education and want girls

In terms of the geography of India, isolation is a main factor limiting access to children as a whole. However, According to Universities of Oxford and Hull, attendance of girls are identifiably less than their male counterpart, “In general in the rural areas contacted the enrolment of girls was substantially less than that of boys, with an internal contrast between the relatively strong support of the local elite for their girls ' schooling and the weak response of the underprivileged masses, whose daughters may not enroll until 8-10 years old and drop out within a year or two”

According to the article, it states “Girl’s education improves family health, which in turn keeps girls in school longer, resulting in a positive cycle of family and community welfare.” (13) This demonstrates that it’s vital a girl should receive their education, as that helps with future of families, as well as their own well being. Since women have to be considered the caretakers of certain religions, education can help improve that role. If women are never able to obtain an education, that will not be necessarily good, as women will be confused and lost about each step they are taking.

India’s gender roles are similar to Japan, where “a woman’s sole purpose in life is to devote her life to her husband and children…[and] are thought to eat and do nothing” (Pitlane). In the farm areas of India, one would see the woman gathering crops by hand, while the man uses the farm equipment. However, as modernization occurs, it is seen that “it is becoming increasingly regular to see women enjoying income earning jobs and developing independence” and that they are trying to improve their status in society (Pitlane).

Education. The first solution to eliminating and reducing this wage gap in the present society and in the future is the implementation of education strategies aimed at giving all children regardless of their gender equal education opportunities (Chang 4). The emphasis on scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical courses for the girls will help them in accessing good jobs their male counterparts have predominant access to. Studies have shown that women have declined from accepting such courses as

Even after many attempts made in the second wave to achieve “right to education” for women of all sections of society, this issue still continues to exist in the third wave.