An Abolishing the Gender Inequality in Education: A Critical Assessment

This paper with an aim of sensitizing everyone about the concern relating to gender inequality and tried to analyse the international conventions and constitutional mandate along with a statutory mechanism to tackle the discrimination based on sex through education. The Constitution of India visualizes the development of a pluralistic, open society, based on the principles of equality and social justice. Gender discrimination may be latent, patent, open or subtle. It is a mind-set that operates within a given situation. It is the result of human practice and prevailed since time immemorial. Everyone has to be reminded of the inherent equality of all through education. The purpose is to minimize and remove prejudices and complexes transmitted through the social environment. It is important to ensure that in our country all the educational programmes are carried out in strict conformity with the secular values keeping in mind equality. The education system must play a positive role in the empowerment of people and the removal of all kinds of biases which are basically man-made. The efforts to eliminate gender discrimination are continued. In this direction, various provisions under the constitution and statutes have been incorporated and implemented with little success.