Gender
equality in India: the importance of education in creating empowered women
- by Valentina
Gender
equality has always been and still is a crucial issue in the development of a
fair society, but education can and must play an active role in shaping it.
However,
despite a high growth rate and various Government measures to encourage gender
equality, the gap still exists in India. The fact is that educating women can
play a very significant role in the improvement of the country, helping to
reduce inequality and functioning as a way to upgrade their status inside the
family and throughout time.
The
empowerment of women has therefore become a worldwide topic of discussion, but
this inequality and discrimination against them is an eradicated centuries-old
global issue.
Thus, the question is, what do we actually mean by equality?
Generally,
women and men should be treated equally in terms of work, education, marriage
and politics. However, although the Constitution doesn’t make distinctions
between them, the society has deprived the females of basic rights
theoretically granted. As a matter of fact, the Indian Constitution considers
equally the rights of its citizens, but in reality women and their
representation in public roles and politics are still marginalized, leading to
a lack of central control.
The
EMPOWERMENT process can really make the difference by enabling each kind of
individual to reach his full capacity, bettering his social, economic and
political participation. Women can be the key element able to move the country
forward and to funnel it in the right direction and transformation. They are
needed for the living humanity and therefore it is imperative for them to be
educated.
But how
can we make a change?
By moving
from marginalization, underestimation and weakness towards the exercise of
power. And the most useful tool to do so and change the status of society is of
course education, whose encouragement can help minimize the gender bias in the
educational environments. It can also foster the concept of women participation
in public roles for the attenuation of discrimination based on gender.
Another
factor of fundamentally determinant in the Indian gender gap is POVERTY.
According to data, the percentage of women in the total number of poor is 70%,
a number which is strongly and directly correlated with the lack of employment
chances and possibilities. But poverty means also lack of food resources and
therefore malnutrition, hunger and other health problems, as well as an
increase in mortality, homelessness and exclusion.
Finally,
gender gap is also influenced and fostered by the absence of decision-making
involvement of women, which could contribute to a better social, civil and
cultural way of living.
All this
said, the backwardness of females in the education system, as long as it
continues to exist, will always be seen as a reason to not invest in the
development of women's knowledge and to keep considering their role strictly
bound to marriage and family.
And maybe,
unluckily, this could be the starting point to solve.
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