Just 17% state girls study after HSC
Campaigns tying up education of girls with growth fly right out of the window
Despite much-touted state-run campaigns such as 'Mulagi Shikli, Pragati Jhali' which have aimed to raise awareness of the importance of educating the girl child, a government report has found that Maharashtra is far behind other states in sending its girls for higher education.
According to the latest report of the bureau of planning, monitoring and statistics under the ministry of human resource development, only 16.9% of girls in the state go in for higher studies after completing their higher school certificate education is compared to 25.3% of boys.
The gender disparity in higher education in Maharashtra is one of the highest in the country.
In contrast, in states like Goa, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya, more girls are pursuing higher education than boys. Goa has a 31% gross enrolment ratio (GER) for girls, whereas only 26% of boys do the same. The national GER is 17.1% for boys and 12.7% for girls. The total GER in Maharashtra is just 21.4%, which is higher than the national figure (15%) but much lower than that of Uttarakhand (36%), Mizoram (26.5%) and Puducherry (29%). Delhi has a healthy GER of nearly 48%.
Dr P Arokiasamy, professor at the International Institute for Population Sciences, said, "We are progressing fast but gender inequality may take some more time to disappear."
In a recent United Nations development programme report on gender inequality, India ranks 129 in 146 countries, lagging behind even Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan on the gender inequality index.
Campaigns tying up education of girls with growth fly right out of the window
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Despite much-touted state-run campaigns such as 'Mulagi Shikli, Pragati Jhali' which have aimed to raise awareness of the importance of educating the girl child, a government report has found that Maharashtra is far behind other states in sending its girls for higher education.
According to the latest report of the bureau of planning, monitoring and statistics under the ministry of human resource development, only 16.9% of girls in the state go in for higher studies after completing their higher school certificate education is compared to 25.3% of boys.
The gender disparity in higher education in Maharashtra is one of the highest in the country.
In contrast, in states like Goa, Uttarakhand and Meghalaya, more girls are pursuing higher education than boys. Goa has a 31% gross enrolment ratio (GER) for girls, whereas only 26% of boys do the same. The national GER is 17.1% for boys and 12.7% for girls. The total GER in Maharashtra is just 21.4%, which is higher than the national figure (15%) but much lower than that of Uttarakhand (36%), Mizoram (26.5%) and Puducherry (29%). Delhi has a healthy GER of nearly 48%.
Dr P Arokiasamy, professor at the International Institute for Population Sciences, said, "We are progressing fast but gender inequality may take some more time to disappear."
In a recent United Nations development programme report on gender inequality, India ranks 129 in 146 countries, lagging behind even Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan on the gender inequality index.
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