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Telangana becomes first State to make gender education compulsory

Telangana has become the first State to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level; without repeating gender stereotypes in its bilingual textbook titled, ‘Towards a World of Equals”.

The book introduced on a pilot basis in engineering colleges affiliated to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU-Hyderabad) discusses gender in its composite form without limiting itself to crime against women.

The books covers 

  •  Information on unacknowledged women writers of Telangana

  •  Problems of sex selection

  • Women’s work in politics and economics

  • Female-centric history

  • Male-female relationships

  • Different strands of women’s movements across the world,

  • Political movements of Afro-American, Caribbean, African, Dalit and minority women.

Gender inequality in India :

It refers to health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India.

Gender inequalities, and its social causes, impact India’s sex ratio, women’s health over their lifetimes, their educational attainment, and economic conditions.

 Data on Gender inequality:

when India’s population is examined as a whole, women are at a disadvantage in several important ways.

India ranks 127th on gender inequality index out of 142 countries in UNDP published Gender Inequality Index in 2015

In India, 80% of women don’t have bank accounts :UN report.

According to the Global Gender Gap Report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2015, India was ranked 113 on the Gender Gap Index (GGI) among 145 countries polled.

India also scores poorly on overall female to male literacy and health rankings.

There is wage inequality between men and women in India.

women often lack collateral for bank loans due to low levels of property ownership.

Women have equal rights under the law to own property and receive equal inheritance rights, but in practice, women are at a disadvantage. This is evidenced in the fact that 70% of rural land is owned by men.

According to Census of India 2011, literacy rate of females is 65.46% compared to males which is 82.14%. 

(According to majority of the scholars, the major factor behind the improved social and economic status of women in Kerala is literacy).

Domestic violence, rape and dowry-related violence are sources of gender violence.

(According to the National Crime Records Bureau 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012,. NCRB report states 8,233 dowry deaths in the country in 2012)



 


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