Higher education is less accessible for girls in India due to cultural and economic factors. Only 50% of women are literate compared to over 70% of men. Parents are less willing to fund daughters' education since they will eventually join their husband's household, while sons are expected to support their family financially. Girls face pressure to focus on marriage instead of their careers. Implementing merit-based scholarships and coaching programs for girls to enter higher education could help address this inequality by providing opportunities and funding without consideration for caste or ability to pay. Changing mindsets around the importance of girls' education is also needed to improve rates of female literacy and participation in higher levels of schooling.

1. Higher Education for Girls
By,
Nikita
Thakur

2. Inequality in Education:
● The higher we move in the education
level, the more the girls go missing from
it.
● A boy’s education is the family’s hope to
move up the financial and social ladder.
● Education for girls, however, was less
important financially, since they were
unlikely to contribute to the family’s
income

3. Illiteracy in India is worse amongst women.
Over 50% of the women are illiterates
● There has been a persistent general
tendency at the global level towards
higher rates of illiteracy for girls than for
boys.
● The inequality, caused by both cultural
and economic factors, is obvious, and the
improvements in girls’ literacy rates are
occurring very slowly.

4. Reason for inequality:
● There is a societal pressure for women to
keep an eye on marriage from a young age.
● From a very young age we are taught that
marriage is the only important thing in a
girl’s life.
● Moreover, money spent on girl’s education
is considered waste.
● The same money will never be considered
waste if given as dowry.

5. ● With parents unwilling to sponsor higher
education for girls, they have to kill their
dreams and settle for less.
● A girl after 21 years is made to choose
between her career and marriage.
● Unfortunately many of them choose
marriage since they can’t go against their
parents and also they cannot fund their
education by themselves.

6. What if a girl chooses career over
marriage?
● “She is very ambitious” is not a compliment in
our culture.Aggressive and hard-charging
women violate unwritten rules about
acceptable social conduct.
● Men are continually applauded for being
ambitious and powerful and successful, but
women who display these same traits often
pay a social penalty.
● Female accomplishments come at a cost.

7. Proposed Solution:
● Selecting girl students who want to pursue
higher studies solely on the basis of merit,
without considering their caste and
providing scholarships to them.
● Many schemes and scholarships are
provided currently to encourage girls, but
they are not sufficient.
● Each and every girl must be given an
opportunity to showcase her talent.

8. Implementation of solution
● Super 30 is an educational program
started by Anand Kumar in Patna, Bihar.
● Every year he selects 30 meritorious
students and trains them for the IIT-JEE.
● In the similar way, if every state starts
training girls for GATE,GRE,CAT or in
their area of interest without any
compensation, the rate of higher
education among girls will increase.

9. ● Once the girl gets into a reputed
university, she must be given proper
scholarship bearing her educational and
living expenses.
● The mindset of the people must be
changed and the importance of higher
education must be explained to them.
● Everyday, we see many cases in which
women are raped, sexually harassed at
their work place.
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10. ● Only a woman can understand the plight
of other women. So if the higher post in a
company are occupied by women they can
create rules ensuring safety of their
colleagues.
● The more the women in power, the less
they become vulnerable.
● India needs more powerful women like
Indra Nooyi, Naina LAl Kidwai and Kiran
Bedi for its development.

11. Thank you