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Women Education in India:Current Status, Recent Initiatives and Future Prospects
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Sustainable development of any country largely dependents on the health and education of women of that particular society. A higher women literacy rate improve the quality of life both at home and outside home, by encouraging and promoting education of children, especially female children and in reduce the infant mortality rate and so on. There are so many factors are responsible for the low literacy rate of women education in India. Some of the important factors which could be attributed for the present literacy status of women in India are Poverty, social system, girl child as substitute to mother, poor school environment, early marriage, social discrimination etc. To improve the literacy rate of women the Government of India has taken a number of ambitious programme, but still it has certain areas of concern, which are primarily responsible for un-fulfilment of the goals of gender equality, women literacy and women empowerment.
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Quality of Life, Poverty, Education, Women.
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