Female Education In India
APPLE announced to partner with Malala Yousufzai enabling a significant contribution towards the expansion of girls’ education. APPLE became the fund’s first Laureate partner in extending the secondary education opportunities to 100,000 girls in India and Latin America. Though India is now in the list of developing nations, the female literacy rate in the country is yet questionable. The female literacy rate of India as per 2011 census is 65.46% which is much below to the world average of 79.7%. So what is the reason for education to remain patriarchal? Why it is that girls and women are yet deprived of their educational birth rights? Education in India is still considered to be a male dominant field.
The basic norms suggest that every child starts his education at an age of 3. In spite of this there are many parts in rural India where women education is considered to be an unnecessary indulgence. Kerala tops the list with 92.07% if its female population to be literate while Bihar is among the bottommost with a female literacy rate of only 51.5%. Girls are often abandoned from schoolings due to the inefficiency of the family to educate its kids due to monetary restrictions. In most of the families with similar situations girls are burdened with the household chores and family responsibilities at a very early stage of their life. The school dropout rate among the adolescent girls stands high at 63.5%.
The second most prominent reasons affecting the female literacy remains marriage. There is a common perception and the dominance of the vague psychology of contemplating marriage over education. A girl is not considered to be a financial pillar of the family. Moreover dowry still remains to be a social evil pulling down the gender equality in India. Another reason to be added up in the list is the unavailability of safe and clean sanitary facilities in schools for young girls. Many government schools of rural as well as urban areas are deprived of proper toilets for their students. Although Swacch Bharat Movement is finding appropriate solutions but open defecation is still a major concern restricting girls from going to school.
The law of the land makes it clear that both boys and girls have an equal opportunity to attend school from the age of six through fourteen, and that primary education is a fundamental right (Indian Constitution, Art 21). It is important for us to understand that for educating each girl child is critical for the social reforms. It has been acknowledged by experts that girls’ schooling remains profound reasons to take up the challenges to human development, with innumerable social and economic benefits to societies and nations. ACADNETS also contributes a little towards this pious cause. Our movement of imparting free education to rural areas stresses on every child especially girls to be benefitted equally. We promote girls’ education and build up their interest by providing hands on experience and experimentation in a playful manner. With this they not only get a better understanding but also develop a problem solving skill among them. Our aim is to reach out to every girl of the area and provide her a cutting edge towards the difficulties of the future.
Education remains the sole path for a girl to get her voice recognized in the society in terms of her choice, aspirations and prove themselves that they share an equal shoulder with the men.Coming forward of mammoths like APPLE towards the cause is an evidence that female empowerment plays a paramount part in mitigating the losses caused by poverty, child labor, lack of care and nutrition, abuse, violence and many more. Every girl of the country must be educated so that we have a stronger tomorrow.
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