Gender Inequality in Education in Haryana

Abstract

A woman is a basic unit of the society. Women play many roles in their life such as a mother, a sister, a daughter and a wife. Education plays an important role in uplift standard of living as well as nutritional and health status of women. After Independence, Indian government take different steps to provide education to women and girl children. As a result, women's literacy rate has grown up. The objectives of the paper are to examine trends in literacy rates by sex and status of women in Haryana and to examine gender gap in education in Haryana. The present paper is based on secondary data. The finding of the paper reveals that literacy rate in Haryana during the year 1971 was 26.89 percent which steadily increased and reached to 75.6 percent by 2011, showing increasing trends. There is high gender gap at all levels of education in the year 1966-67. After that it is decreasing and fluctuating also at all levels of education in Haryana.