Abstract: Women education is an essential need to change their status in the society and also empowerment intellectually. Women education in India has been a most important preoccupation of both administrative and civil society because educated women can play a very important role in the society for socio-economic development, besides political, and legal. It is one of the opportunities for women empowerment because it enables them to respond to the challenges; to confront their traditional role and change their life-style. Education eliminates inequalities and disparities as the means of recovering their status within and out of their families. The present study based on fully secondary sources collected on various issues obtained through Statistics of School Education (SSE), Ministry of Human Resource development, New Delhi and Census of India 2011. The study aims at the girl’s enrolment in school education and analyse female literacy rate over the census years in India. We concluded that girls’ enrolment in school education had been increased year by year in India. At the same time women literacy is low compared to the literacy rate of men. Even though the female literacy level is rapidly increasing, it could not achieve to the literacy level of in India.
Keywords: Women education, Statistics of School Education.
Title: Status of Women Education in Rural India
Author: Ms. Snigdha
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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