Gender Bias In Girls Education Essay

Introduction

Girls’ education is considered as one of the most effective ways for ending poverty in developing nations. But there are many constraints even today regarding girl’s education and a number of factors contribute to it. Historic evidences show that there was no education for women in India for about 2,000 years other than a few upper caste women who had the privilege of being educated at home. Attainment of education during that era was not encouraged and considered a disgrace. A report on the National committee on Women’s Education (1959) stated that there was practically no formal education in the past except for a few women who belonged to the upper class. Today even after 62 years of independence and various interventions and

This study analysed gender bias based on the household consumption data collected from India and some of the findings from the study were that (a) The girl child receive fewer resources within the intra allocation of households due to their negative wealth effect with regard to marriage and paying of dowry (b) Households with more number of girls have lesser consumption pattern compared to other households (c) Saving for dowry and marriage is much more prevalent in northern states than the southern states. In some of the southern state where wet irrigation is practiced there is a reverse of dowry and bride price hence it increases the female child’s contribution to household income. The paper concluded that one effective method to overcome the gender bias is to promote the participation of women in labour market which may solve this social problem that is deep routed in