A Study On Girls’ Education In India

Women education is one of the problems that all the countries confront across the world. Education for girls is one of the problems of women education in most developing countries of Asia and Africa. India’s long-standing tradition of discrimination against women results in the low social status of women, and India women have experienced extremely serious gender inequality. Girls’ education is not paid serious attention as boys’ and girls are at a disadvantage.Providing free and compulsory education for all children under the age of6-14in10years is announced in India Constitution in1950. Since then, the government has been committed to achieving universal elementary education, especially after the World Conference on Education for All in1990, India made eight-year compulsory elementary education a top priority of education development. During the process of education development, the government recognized the importance of girls’ education, a series of specialized education programs has been made for girls’ education. As a consequence, India has made great progress on girls’ education. But there are still a series of factors which are constraining the development of girls’ education and girls’ education is still at a disadvantage at the upper primary school and secondary school. To develop girls’ education as soon as possible and achieve gender equity in education in India are the issues that the government must address.The paper tries to analyze the status of girls’ education through literature, comparative law, historical method and other research methods. The paper can be divided into seven parts.The first part is the introduction, which illustrates the reasons for the subject, relevant concepts, research achievements, research purposes and research contents as well as research methods and research significance. The second part describes the importance of girls’ education and social status of women in India. Girls’ education will contribute to the population control and the improvement of the population quality. Girls’ education will contribute to enhancing women’s empowerment. Girls’ education will help to increasing the levels of female’s labor force participation and labor values. Girls’ education will contribute to the early realization of India’s compulsory elementary education.The third part introduces the development process of girls’ education in India, which includes girls’ education in ancient times, in modern times and after the independence.The fourth part describes the measures to promote girls’ education in India:Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan; Universal Secondary Education Program; Mahila Samakhya; to Develop Non-formal Education;"Education Reservation Policy" for Vulnerable Groups; To Strengthening NGO Participation; to Appeal for International Assistance.The fifth part summarizes the achievements and shortcomings of girls’ education. The main achievements include rapid rise of literacy rates, sustained growth of school enrolments; steadily declination of dropout rates, the same school performance as boys; rapid developments of girls’ education belonging to vulnerable groups. At the same time, there still exist many shortcomings. The enrolment rates are relatively high in high primary and secondary school. The dropout rates are still at a high level. Regional development is unbalanced. Muslim girls’education is relatively weak. And compared with other countries in the world, the development level of girls’ education in India is relatively low.The sixth part discusses the constraints of girls’ education in India. The development of girls’ education is still subjected to traditional customs and ideas, the condition of family economy, the educational infrastructures, the numbers and quality of female teachers and the personal factors of girls.The seventh part is the conclusion and implication.