1Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, School of Humanities and Social Sciences NIMS University, Jaipur
2Assistant Professor, Cluster Innovation Centre, Delhi University, Delhi
3Project Director, ICSSR Sponsored Project, ICSSR-NRC, JNU, New Delhi, E-mail: varshney.deepika@gmail.com
4Co-project Director, ICSSR Sponsored Project, ICSSR-NRC, JNU, New Delhi. E-mail: aneeshkumar@cuh.ac.in, achauhan@vmou.ac.in
Online published on 4 January, 2017.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse demographic data to measure gender disparities which are responsible for their present status in the society. It also investigates the roots of gender disparities which are widening more and more from years to years. The analysis is primarily based on secondary sources of data. The relevant data regarding sex ratio, population growth, literacy and occupation have been collected from Census of India 2001 and 2011. The data have been used here at district level in order to study the various indices independently showing the female status. Results make it clear that the disparity at the early age group may increase over the years. Although, female population is increasing since 1901, the ratio of female population is not in tune with male population. Among all the districts, Leh has registered the highest difference in sex ratio during last ten years which is noteworthy. It may be the impact of Kargil war in the year of 1991.
