The Position of Indian Women in Higher Education

Vol-2 | Issue-4 | April 2017 | Published Online: 12 April 2017    PDF ( 332 KB )
Author(s)
Dr. Anisha Tamang 1

1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education, Nakshalbari College, Naxalbari, Darjeeling

Abstract

Education is the most important tool for self and national development too. Man and woman both are equal part of society. So, for sustainable development both they needed to be educated rather highly educated. Higher education means education after secondary which is not just information base, it builds and improves too all areas- knowledge, skill, self realization, innovation power, thinking power, decision making power, efficiency, economic sufficiency etc. It will make change in culture, social attitude, socio economic structure, family domain, and attitude toward gender equality also. Through this study an attempt has been taken to analyze woman’s higher education, needs, barriers, status of woman’s enrolment in higher education. Researcher fallowed descriptive method in this study.

Keywords
Higher education, woman enrollment
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