The Role Of Education And Women's EDUCATION In Economic Development
1. The Role Of Education And Women's
EDUCATION In Economic Development
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2. The Role of Education in Economic and Social
Development of the Country
I must say that the accumulated knowledge (scientific, methodological, spiritual)
provides a level of education of population, databases and knowledge bases.
Implementation possibilities of society is carried out in the research, cultural,
industrial, business and other activities in the form of suggestions of experts. In
turn, the effectiveness of the educational system and its development is based
on three defining principles - accessibility, quality and security.
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6. Importance of women education
“If you educate a man you educate an individual, however, if you educate a woman you
educate a whole family. Women empowered means mother India empowered”. PT.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU. Women 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.1 If it is said that
education is the key to all problems, then it won't be improper. Thinkers have given a
number of definitions of education but out of these definitions, the most important definition
is that which was put forth by M. Phule. According to M. Phule, "Education is that which
demonstrates the difference between what is good and what is evil". If we consider the
above definition, we come to know that whatever revolutions that have taken place in our
history, education is at the base of them. 2 Education means modification of behaviour in
every aspect, such as mentality, outlook, attitude etc. 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.
7. THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of development. No country can
achieve sustainable economic development without substantial investment in human capital.
Education enriches people’s understanding of themselves and world. It improves the quality of
their lives and leads to broad social benefits to individuals and society. Education raises people’s
productivity and creativity and promotes entrepreneurship and technological advances. In addition
it plays a very crucial role in securing economic and social progress and improving income
distribution.
The Importance of Education in Economic Development
Prior to the nineteenth century, systematic investment in human capital was not
considered specially important in any country. Expenditures on schooling, on-the-job
training, and other similar forms of investment were quite small. This began to change
radically during this century with the application of science to the development of new
goods and more efficient methods of production, first in Great Britain, and then gradually
in other countries.
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9. Role of Education in the Empowerment of Women in
India
Women education in India has 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. Education is
milestone of women empowerment because it enables them to responds to the challenges, to
confront their traditional role and change their life. So that we can’t neglect the importance of
education in reference to women empowerment and India poised to becoming superpower in
recent years. Education of women is the most powerful tool to change the position in society.
Women education in India has been a need of the hour, as education is a foundation stone for the
empowerment of woman.
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11. On observing the above table, we come to know that at no point could the literacy rate of women
match that of men. As a result, even after 65 years of independence, women occupy a secondary
position in our social hierarchy. Inspire of being aware of her position, women can't transform the
situation due to lack of education. Therefore, women's empowerment can't be effected unless we
persuade the importance of women's education
12. GDP per capita in 1913 from figures provided by Maddison (1991)
against the primary school enrolment rates of 1882 for describing the
educational output after 31 years as mean average of life expectancy.
15. Primary school progress report
• According to the UN, primary-school enrolment in developing regions
has increased from 80% to 90% since 1990.
• There has also been a significant reduction in the gender gap.
• In 1990, for every 100 boys enrolled in primary school in developing
regions, there were 86 girls.
• By 2012 the figure had risen to 97 girls per 100 boys.
• However, significant differences between regions remain.
16. Next step
The secondary school challenge
• Education remains key in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that
will replace the MDGs (which end in 2015).
• Governments and international agencies are turning their attention now to
secondary schools.
• In much of Asia, Latin America and Africa there are significant differences
between levels of secondary education in men and women aged 25 and over,
as the following slides show.
17. Traditional barriers to girls’
schooling
Poverty
(e.g. poor parents
need some of their
children to work and
earn money instead
of studying)
Cultural barriers
(e.g. the belief held
by parents in some
societies that there is
little value in girls’
education)
Perceived risks
(e.g. parents may be
fearful of allowing
girls to travel long
distances to school
on their own in
lawless rural areas )
Neglected needs
(e.g. poor rural
schools may lack
adequate sanitation
facilities for girls,
leading to absences
and drop-outs)
18. Factors Holding Women from Going to School
Conceptual Factors – Discrimination Against Women
Socioeconomic Factors – Poverty
Recommendation
Awareness Campaign
A Gradual Approach
More Investment on K-12 Education
Provision of Informal or Non-formal Education
19. Gender and
development
• Development means ways in which
a place seeks to develop
economically and to improve quality
of life for its people.
• A country’s level of development is
shown primarily by economic
indicators of average wealth and/or
income.
• Development encompasses a variety
of social and political criteria too.
• Gender equality is widely regarded
as an important indicator of
development.
20. Gender and development
• The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is a composite index devised by the
United Nations. It measures gender inequalities related to three aspects of
social and economic development. These are:
1. reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent
birth rates
2. empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by
females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older
with some secondary education
3. the labour force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15
years and older
21. Traditional barriers
• Opposition to education for girls is very strong in some places.
• Pakistan’s Swat Valley and northeast Nigeria are places where men have taken
extreme measures to stop girls being educated.
22. Educating girls is ‘smart economics’
• If women are educated to the same high standard as mean, it
improves a country’s human resources.
• There will be more skilled workers which can attract foreign
direct investment from overseas (this happened in China).
• Microfinance schemes in India and Bangladesh have helped
educated women to run their own businesses successfully.
• In all these ways, educating women helps grow a country’s gross
domestic product (GDP).
23. Educating girls is ‘smart economics’
Better
education
for women
Economic
growth of a
nation
Social status of
women rises;
women enter
work in politics,
health and
education
Fertility rates
fall, and the
health of
children at home
often improves
Can you explain the
varied ways in which
better education for
women can help a
country to develop
economically?
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25. Millennium Development Goals
• Eight specific objectives for the global community created at the
UN Millennium Summit in New York in 2000.
• The Millennium Declaration, adopted by the world leaders,
promised to: ‘free all men, women, and children from the abject
and de-humanizing conditions of extreme poverty’.
• MDG 2 is ‘to achieve universal primary education’.
• MDG 3 has as one of its targets: ‘Eliminate gender disparity in
primary and secondary education’.
