Journal of Teacher Education and Research
Year : 2014, Volume : 9, Issue : 1
First page : ( 54) Last page : ( 58)
Print ISSN : 0974-8210.

Gender disparities in enrolment at higher education level

Dr. Singh Shalini

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education, V.M. L.G. College, Ghaziabad

Online published on 12 May, 2015.

Abstract

Today, in the era of globalization we are stating that man and woman are equal in all respects of life. According to Right to education act every child under the age 7 to 14 years whether it is girl or boy has right to get free and compulsory primary education. But really the picture is actually different at all the three stages, Primary, Secondary & Higher. Over past six decades India has taken long strides in promoting higher education. Large scale expansion of higher education has taken place at the aggregate level. (477) four hundreds seventy seven University - level institutions and 20,677 colleges were established. During the year 2006–07, the enrolment in higher education was estimated to be over 14 million. But still there were found gender disparities in higher education level and enrolment percentage of females is lesser than males in all respects. In this connection, yet another question arises; what is the position of women and girls coming from different social groups? As would be expected, gender differences in terms of enrolment ratios persist across economic — caste-groups So, now-a-days the pertinent issue is that, is there any kind of gender bias higher education level? And what is the position of females in different population groups to make them at uniform or equal level? This study focuses upon gender disparities at higher education level and schemes for religious, caste regional and gender equality

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