Asian Journal of Development Matters
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 2

The changing scenario of women education in India

  • Author:
  • Abdulahi Abdi Mohamed1, K.V. Aiahanna2
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 84 to 91

1Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore, Mysore

2Professor of Development Studies, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore, Mysore

Online published on 15 February, 2013.

Abstract

Gender discrimination is one of the issues concerned in development process, practically developing countries facing the problems of gender inequality which leads to growing emancipation of women. Elimination of gender inequality is one of the millennium development goals India being a 7th largest country in the world as per population, has the highest women illiteracy. The barriers in the traditional society made the women to be deprived and suppress. The paper highlights the issues of the women education in India and the problems faced by women.