WOMEN EDUCATION IN INDIA

Abstract

Women Education is essential factor to broaden the orderlies of women’s social roles by endowing them with greater skills and resources as well as transforming their attitudes and values. Education is a tool to solve social problems and to bring change in the society. Though the enrolment of girls in schools has been on the rise but due to numerous socio-economic reasons the dropout rate still continues to be very high. According to 2001, census the literacy rate for women in India is only 54.16%. No one can deny that low female literacy rate has a negative impact on health and social issues including sex ratios, child birth rate, death rate, mean age of marriage etc...