3. Value of women's education
• NO COUNTRY can achieve development without
educating her women. The education of women is as
important as that of men. It can even be said that
educating women is of greater importance. If we
educate a woman, we educate a family. An educated
woman can perform her duties with great efficiency.
She can run her family in a better manner and can
help her children in their studies also. Moreover, if a
woman is educated she is treated with respect. She
has not to lead a life of dependence on men, since she
can earn her own living (bread and butter). Education
fills her with confidence and she is able to win her
due place in society.
4. • Today, government has become aware that
female education is as important as that of men.
A Sanskrit shaloka says that “a woman is under
the guardianship of her father before marriage
dependant on her husband after her marriage
and on her son after the death of her husband."
But this attitude of treating a woman as a ward
or a dependent has been in existence for
centuries. But now all these have changed. With
the spread of education women have now begun
to claim equality with men.
5. • Access to education has been
one of the most pressing
demands of theses women's
rights movements. Women's
education in India has also
been a major preoccupation of
both the government and civil
society as educated women
can play a very important role
in the development of the
country.
6. History of Women's Education
in India
• Vedic period :-
Although in the Vedic period women had
access to education in India, they had
gradually lost this right. However, in the
British period there was revival of interest
in women's education in India. During this
period, various socio religious movements led
by eminent persons like Raja Ram Mohan
Roy, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar emphasized
on women's education in India. Mahatma
Jyotiba Phule, Periyar and Baba Saheb
Ambedkar were leaders of the lower castes
in India who took various initiatives to make
education available to the women of India.
7. • However women's education got a fillip after the
country got independence in 1947 and the
government has taken various measures to provide
education to all Indian women. As a result women's
literacy rate has grown over the three decades
and the growth of female literacy has in fact been
higher than that of male literacy rate. While in
1971 only 22% of Indian women were literate, by
the end of 2001 54.16% female were literate.
The growth of female literacy rate is 14.87% as
compared to 11.72 % of that of male literacy
rate.
8. Importance of Women's Education
in India:
• Women's education in India plays a very important
role in the overall development of the country. It not
only helps in the development of half of the human
resources, but in improving the quality of life at home
and outside. Educated women not only tend to
promote education of their girl children, but also can
provide better guidance to all their children.
Moreover educated women can also help in the
reduction of infant mortality rate and growth of the
population.
9. Gender discrimination
• Gender discrimination still persists in India and lot more
needs to be done in the field of women's education in
India. The gap in the male-female literacy rate is just a
simple indicator. While the male literary rate is more than
75% according to the 2001 census, the female literacy
rate is just 54.16%.
Prevailing prejudices, low enrollment of girl child in the
schools, engagements of girl children in domestic works
and high drop out rate are major obstacles in the path of
making all Indian women educated.
10. Women Education in Ancient India
• It is believed that women in ancient India enjoyed education in
the Vedic period. Patanjali in his works suggests that women
had education during the beginning of the Vedic age. Maitreyi
and Gargi are mentioned in the Rig Ved and Upanisads.
• However the decline began from the 5 century BC with Smritis
and further in the medieval ages with the purdah system, child
marriages etc restricting women from equal status with men.
• The Bhakti movement questioned some of the forms of
oppression amd traditions like sati, jauhar and devadasi have
been banned. The Constitution of India guarantees the right to
equality to all Indian women without discrimination.
• The literacy rate before independence was 2-6% rose in 1961
to 15.3% and 50% by the year 2001
11. Women Education in India today
• Kerala and Mizoram are the only states in India that have
achieved universal female literacy rates. The improvement in
social and economic status of women is said to be one of the
reasons for literacy. In cities the literacy rate is almost equal
between girls and boys in the country. However the rate in rural
areas continues to be less than the boys. Hence 40% of the
centers under NFE, non formal education programs are set apart
for women.
• According to statistics of women education in India today 0.3
million NFE centers have provided education to 0.12 million girls
out of 7.42 million children. However in tribal areas there is not
much of a gender bias as compared to all other castes, tribal
community statistics show lower male ratio inspite of much low
income, literacy, education and other facilities. Several efforts
are being made towards women education and empowerment.
• The government is taking steps to increase the rate of women
education and employment. Students preparing for women
education essay can find details and information on importance
of women education, women education today, women education in
ancient India on several websites of education.
12. NGOs for Women
• Several non governmental organisations NGOs have
been instrumental in promoting women education,
health and other important aspects necessary for
women in India.
• Missionary schools continue to offer yeoman service
in hundreds of schools in the country.
• Chetanalaya in Delhi is an NGO that offers non-
formal education to empower women in several
spheres such as health, income-generation, saving
schemes etc.
• The UNICEF as well as other international
organizations contribute towards quality education
of women in India.
• The Jhabua district saw 22 mobile schools offering
formal education through tents to tribal and migrant
people of the district. 3,600 child laborers were
brought to mainstream education in Tamil Nadu with
the help of UNICEF support.
• The NGOs that work for women empowerment in
India are several, as they assist in women education
against the prevalent evils in society viz. the dowry
system, violence against women, gender bias etc.
Several Mahila Mandals also empower women
through offering women
13. Muthulakshmi: India's first woman doctor had a hea
• Muthulakshmi was the first woman doctor in
India. She had earlier been advised not to
appear for the very difficult M.B and C.M.
course but she had prevailed and shocked
everyone by getting the 100 per cent result in
surgery and most of the merit medals and
prizes of that year. This was at a time when
some professors did not even allow women to
sit in their class. They would ask junior
lecturers to take classes for girls separately.
She later became active in the social arena
and was the prime mover behind the
legislation that abolished the system of
dedicating young girls to temples (devadasi)
and played a role in raising the minimum
marriage age for women.
She founded the Cancer Institute (WIA) in
Madras and Avvai Home, the first institute in
Madras to admit and educate poor and
destitute girls with no caste bias.
14. Abala, Lady Bose
• Abala, Lady Bose (Bengali: Ôbola Boshu) (April 8, 1864 – August
26, 1951) was a social worker well-known for her efforts in the field
of women’s education and her contribution towards the alleviation of
the condition of widows.[1]
• She was amongst the early students of Banga Mahila Vidyalaya
and Bethune School (established byBethune), and passed entrance
with a scholarship in 1881. As she could not secure admission
toCalcutta Medical College, being a woman, she went to Madras
(Now Chennai) in 1882 on Bengal government scholarship to study
medicine but had to give up because of ill health. She was married
in 1887.[1]
• She was one of the early feminists, apart from being an
educationist. Writing in the Modern Review, a leading English
magazine in those days, she argued that women should have a
deeper and extended education. ‘not because we may make better
matches for our girls… not even that the services of the daughter-in-
law may be more valuable in the home of her adoption, but because
a woman like a man is first of all a mind, and only in the second
place physical and a body.’ It was from her that Kamini Roy, who
studied with her in Bethune School, picked up the threads of her
feminism.[2] Upon her husband's knighthood in 1916, she became
Lady Bose.
16. ICICI CEO – CHANDA KOCHHAR
• [ Date : Jun 29th, 2010 ]
• Chanda Kochhar (born November 17, 1961) is currently
the Managing Director (MD) of ICICI Bank and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO). ICICI Bank is India’s largest
private bank and overall fourth largest bank in the
country. She also heads the Corporate Centre of ICICI
Bank. Kochhar has also consistently figured in Fortune’s
list of “Most Powerful Women in Business” since 2005. In
2009, she debuted at number 20 in the Forbes “World’s
100 Most Powerful Women list”.
• Early life
• Chanda Kochhar was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and
raised in Jaipur, Rajasthan. She then moved to Mumbai,
where she joined Jai Hind College for a Bachelor of Arts
degree. After graduating in 1982 she then pursued MBA
and Cost Accountancy(ICWAI). Later, she acquired the
Masters Degree in Management Studies from the
prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management
Studies, Mumbai. She received the Wockhardt Gold
Medal for Excellence in Management Studies as well as
the J. N. Bose Gold Medal in Cost Accountancy for
highest marks in the same year.
18. Early life and career
• Indra Nooyi was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
She completed her schooling from Holy Angels
AIHSS, Chennai. She received a Bachelor’s degree in
Commerce from Madras Christian College in 1974 and
a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976.
Beginning her career in India, Nooyi held product
manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and textile
firm Mettur Beardsell. She was admitted to Yale
School of Management in 1978 and earned a Master’s
degree in Public and Private Management. Graduating
in 1980, Nooyi joined the Boston Consulting Group
(BCG), and then held strategy positions at Motorola
and Asea Brown Boveri.
21. conclusion
• Women of present is much liberated than
the past. The statue of woman has
undergone a great change today. They
are making sincere efforts to rise in all
spheres of life. Women have proved to be
more responsible and work with great
dedication
