While more young women are
enrolled in higher education than ever before–and apparently more successful in
clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men–they are either marrying
early or not finding or not looking for jobs, according to an IndiaSpend analysis
of various data.
The
enrolment of girls in higher education increased from 39% to 46% from 2007 to
2014, but
female participation in India’s labour force declined to a low of 27% in 2014
from 34% in 1999, according to a 2015 study by
the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Almost 12 million women are
enrolled in undergraduate courses, but few continue to professional courses;
600,000 women were enrolled for diploma courses in 2013, the latest year for
which data are available. Even fewer women sign on for PhDs; only 40% of PhD
candidates are female.
In
2016, as we said, girls were more successful than boys in clearing
10th-standard exams of a national education board, a trend that has held
over seven years.
While
428,443 girls appeared for the 10th-standard exams of the Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE), 379,523 were successful–a pass percentage of 88.5%,
according to CBSE data. By comparison, 564,213
boys wrote the exams and 444,832 were successful–a pass percentage of 79%.
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