Higher Education and Women: Trending Issues Shaping Tomorrow

Abstract

Education is the basic necessity for every civilized person and for every society. It is not only concerned with academic education, but education as a whole. Women who constitute 50% of the population, needs to be educated too because they stand out as the backbone of the society. But, to a surprise, in India, women have been and still are being deprived of basic education, forget higher education. With the understanding by time, the illiteracy rate of women in India is decreasing slowly and gradually. The higher education is now being imparted to women too, but the rate to which it's being imparted is significantly less. The need today is for educating each and every individual of the society, specially women because educating a woman is educating a number of generations. This paper under study deals with the importance of imparting higher education to women and the issues concerning the same. This paper will be useful for academicians and political leaders to evaluate the interest of higher education to women in India.