ROLE OF EDUCATION IN WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES AND IMPACT

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said once: "If you educate a man, you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family as a whole." Women Empowered means mother India empowered. If women contributing to almost half of the population are motivated, the national economy will be improved. Education is seen as a landmark for the empowerment of women because it helps them to respond to challenges, to confront their conventional position, and to change their lives. In spite of growing access to education, gender inequality still exists in India and much more needs to be done in India in the field of women's education. Women have so much unexplored ability that they have never been used before. As education is both an input and an input to human growth, encouraging and entrepreneurial development would be assured by educational equity. Today, according to the Literacy Rate 2011 census, the level of female literacy is 65.46 percent, while the rate of male literacy is over 80 percent. There is plenty that education can do for the freedom, dignity and welfare of women even beyond literacy. The key to opening the golden door of independence for growth is education. As they are so closely linked, Eileen Malone Beach sees education, health care, and income as a blessed trinity. This paper explores the influence of education on women's empowerment, as well as the problems and improvements we need to tackle during the process. To ensure the desired outcomes, we call for a renewed focus on appropriate quality and holistic education.

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Keywords: Development, Education, Empowerment, India, Women.


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