Gender Inequality in Higher Education: A Study of Girl Students of Conventional Courses in Nasik, India

 

Gender Inequality in Higher Education: A study of Girl

Students of Conventional Courses in Nasik, India

Keywords:  Gender inequality, Higher education, Girl students, Nasik India

             Gender discrimination in developing world is a crucial reality. In modern times women are performing exceptionally well in different spheres of activities. The problem of gender inequality still prevails in all spheres of life.  Though Indian constitution has granted equality to women in principle, in reality majority of Indian women are facing the problem of inequality and discrimination.

            The paper tries to focus on gender discrimination in higher education in India where the situation is paradoxical. On the one hand girl students are performing very well in all faculties of education, many of them are topping the merit lists, the percentage of passing is more than the boys, but at the same time according to 2011 Indian census, 35% women are illiterate. Out of the remaining 65% literate women the percentage of higher education is very low. Again there are educational disparities on the ground of rural-urban, poor-rich, higher-lower caste etc. Government has provided various facilities and concessions to facilitate education to women and decrease the disparities.

           The paper tries to highlight the challenges in education before the girl students of the Department of Sociology, their ambitions, career choice and hurdles in their education, their experience about gender discrimination in the family, family back ground, use of facilities or concessions given by the government, etc.

            The data will be collected by the primary techniques like questionnaire and interview. The study will be limited to the students of conventional courses. It will be conducted in one of the leading women’s college in Nasik city.