Educating a girl is to educate the whole country. Girls’ education contributes to the rising economy of the country. They can become a powerful weapon to improve the economic condition by working in household and professional environment.
Historical Background
For more than 300 years, there was no education system for girls in society. The women’s status was lower; therefore, educating them was not worth a duty for the elders of the family. Only a few girls for the upper-class family could gain a little education from home. There was a superstition among the people if girls taught to write and read, they become a widow after marriage.
At the beginning of the 19th century, for every 1000 boys at school, the total number of girls was 46. Women of our country have equally participated with males, but there is still a long way to go towards the disadvantage of not educating a girl child. According to the National Committee on Women’s Education, the picture of the girl’s education is unsatisfactory and, women receive fewer instructions on education and more on domestic work.
At the beginning of the 19th century, for every 1000 boys at school, the total number of girls was 46. Women of our country have equally participated with males, but there is still a long way to go towards the disadvantage of not educating a girl child. According to the National Committee on Women’s Education, the picture of the girl’s education is unsatisfactory and, women receive fewer instructions on education and more on domestic work.
Problems Girls Face Acquiring Education
There are some of the problems that girls face when they want to educate themselves. Some girls face the sociological barrier, root stereotypes, gender segregation, and, rest have to face economic concerns and constraints. Women tend to participate more in gender profiling and stereotypes in their domestic roles. If we see the education category girls choose in their higher education in Arts and home science subjects, boys take science and technology subjects more. The same goes for the technical and vocational fields. The enrollment in these fields is more male-dominated. Formal-education and training conduct programs that relate to domestic roles than productive work. Families are also less interested in educating the girls more than the boys. The families even tend to pull the girls out of school for helping out at home.
Parental reluctance also plays a role in inhibiting access to education. Indian society makes it refusing or limiting the schooling of the girls. The way society sees women deflates their choices and existence in the family. Society even thinks of girls as the future child barrier or child rearer. Therefore, going to school for learning becomes unnecessary and negligible. The family wants the boy child to read and write, which will prove to be the right investment.
The underprivileged division of society is unable to send their girl child to school. Whatever they have, they invest those in the male child. According to their society, boys can only uplift their condition and status in society.
Parental reluctance also plays a role in inhibiting access to education. Indian society makes it refusing or limiting the schooling of the girls. The way society sees women deflates their choices and existence in the family. Society even thinks of girls as the future child barrier or child rearer. Therefore, going to school for learning becomes unnecessary and negligible. The family wants the boy child to read and write, which will prove to be the right investment.
The underprivileged division of society is unable to send their girl child to school. Whatever they have, they invest those in the male child. According to their society, boys can only uplift their condition and status in society.
Why girls need Governmental Schemes for Education
Lack of Education
In Indian, women’s education never got its due share of emphasis. From the history of India, women debarred from the educational area. According to early perception, women need household education for their future family. Even today, this perception of the early mind-set of India persists in the villages of India.
Overworked
Everyone knows that Indian women work more than men, but their hard-work is hardly noticeable as they do unpaid work. Their work never counts as work.
School Drop-Out
Dropping out means leaving the education school, college, university, or group for practical reasons, necessities, or disillusionment with the system.
There are more drop-outs in girls at the primary level because of some superstitions and the mind-set that girls do not need any education as boys do. It is a discriminatory attitude. And, both factors add to the seriousness of the problem. Orthodox Indians believed that the place of a woman is at home. Even if they work outside in fields, in factories or offices, their work is lowly paid. The attitude has improved, but not eradicated. The problem of literacy is more among girls and women as compared to boys and men. It is another problem that comes within the list of Adult Education and Non-Formal Education (N.F.E.). Only Adult Education and Non-Formal Education system can improve these challenges of girls’ education in India.
There are more drop-outs in girls at the primary level because of some superstitions and the mind-set that girls do not need any education as boys do. It is a discriminatory attitude. And, both factors add to the seriousness of the problem. Orthodox Indians believed that the place of a woman is at home. Even if they work outside in fields, in factories or offices, their work is lowly paid. The attitude has improved, but not eradicated. The problem of literacy is more among girls and women as compared to boys and men. It is another problem that comes within the list of Adult Education and Non-Formal Education (N.F.E.). Only Adult Education and Non-Formal Education system can improve these challenges of girls’ education in India.
Early Marriage
The elders of the Indian family fix the marriage of girls in India. The scenario of the Indian villages is worst. The girls did not even tell about the groom or their family. They are not allowed to ask if the future family will provide an opportunity for higher education. They have to marry a groom whom her family has chosen for him.
Unethical Behavior
Girls are also victims of unintended or sexist behaviors by educators. Most teachers care deeply about youngsters in their rooms. But due to some educators, parents are afraid of sending their girl child to school.
Conclusion
The government of India has taken so many initiatives for the improvement of girls’ education. Despite that, the status of girls’ education has not increased to the expected level. These initiatives have not reached the bottom root level. The Government of India must also have to take the initiatives to implement these schemes properly and provisions to the bottom root level.
Penned By Piyali Das
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