Status of Women Education in India

Abstract

Since ancient times, all the world's thinkers, philosophers and educationists have always experienced the importance of women's education. In Indian civilization, culture and tradition, women were always given a respectable place. She was called Devi Maa or Sahachari. It has also been said, "Yatra Naristu Pujyante, Ramante Tatra Deity". After the independence, the Indian constitution has also given the right to get equal education by eliminating class discrimination and gender discrimination, but still for a long time due to certain orthodox reasons women have to worship Goddess Maa Saraswati for centuries. Kept away from. In the words of Swami Vivekananda: - "Women were always trained for helplessness and slave dependence on others". In fact, it seems that in ancient and medieval societies, keeping women under the cover of ignorance and accepting the slavery of father, husband or son, only to give knowledge of the duty of the program was considered as the history of female education of that time.