Gender Gap in Elementary Education

Gender gap is a disproportionate difference or disparity between sexes. The gender gap shows us how unequal access to opportunities maintains inequality between the sexes. So, gender gap means a difference between the way men and women are treated in a society or between that men and women do and achieve. The present paper is an attempt to examine gender gap in elementary education. Elementary school is a school for students in their first school years, where they get primary education before they enter secondary education. It is a descriptive study. This study based on official documents. For the collection of data in this study, primary (official or Govt. Reports) and Secondary (Books and journals) sources was used. In this study, the results shows that gender gap in the gross Enrolment Rate both a primary as well as upper primary stages is gradually decrease because girls enrolment both at primary and upper primary stages are steadily increase. This result also shows that both primary and upper primary stages enrollment of