Essay On Girl Education

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Education has assumed special significance in the context of country's planned development and in economy. It is an important sector of our society. In our family system, girl’s education has assumed special significance. Research evidences indicate that educating girls brings a number of benefits to girls, their families and their societies at large, economic productivity, social development and social equality are the outcomes of education in general, whereas transferring education from one generation to another is possible only through educated girls and women. In this paper sincere attempt has been made to show the state of women in education in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.
KEYWORDS: Education, Marathwada
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Factors Affecting Education of Adolescent Girls:
For young girls in our region, poor nutrition, early child bearing, girls inherit their mother's domestic chores and adopt stereotypical gender roles. Low self-esteem and self worth are common. After marriage, her husband and in-laws control the bride's life. Factors such as uncongenial family environment (alcoholism drug abusive and other illegal activities), lack of parental involvement, emotional deprivation, physical and emotional abuse and neglect, unhealthy and undesirable peer influence, inability to continue schooling due to poor performance and fear of punishment by parents and teachers leads to truancy and illegal activities.
Thus the poor attendance in schools, lack of accessible middle schools in rural areas, unimaginative curricula, dysfunctional schools in remote area, low motivation from teachers and early entry into the workforce are few challenges which need to be met to improve the availability of educational opportunities to adolescent

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