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Educating the girl child refers to every aspect of education that aims at developing the skill and knowledge of girls and women. This includes the general education at colleges, schools, professional education, technical and vocational educations, health education, etc. The education of the women encompasses both non-literary and literary education. The education of the girl child has the ability of bringing socio-economic changes. Democratic countries including India have a constitution that guarantees equal rights to both women and men. Primary education is a key right. When a girl is protected through her rights, the society is assured of its sustainability. Realizing how important education is, both government and non-government have taken various projects to strengthen girl’s child education.

Realizing the importance of women education, the government, and many non-government organizations took many projects to spread women education. Literacy programs are being taken in favor of women

Importance of Educating the girl child in India

The importance of educating the girl child in the society and the following are some of them

Economic development and prosperity:Educating the girl child will help in empowering them to come forward and contribute towards the prosperity and development of the country

Economic empowerment: Helpless condition can’t be changed for the men if the women are backward and depend on men. Economic independence and empowerment will come when we educate the girl child.

Improved life: Educating of the girl child helps in the improvement of a good life. The identity of the girl won’t be lost. She has the ability to read and learn about her own rights. She won’t be trodden down about her rights. There will be a general improvement on her life.

Improved health: Educated girls bring an awareness of the important of hygiene and health. Through education, they can lead a healthy life style. The women that are educated can carter for their child.

Educating the girl child refers to every aspect of education that aims at developing the skill and knowledge of girls and women. This includes the general education at colleges, schools, professional education, technical and vocational educations, health education, etc. The education of the women encompasses both non-literary and literary education. The education of the girl child has the ability of bringing socio-economic changes. Democratic countries including India have a constitution that guarantees equal rights to both women and men. Primary education is a key right. When a girl is protected through her rights, the society is assured of its sustainability. Realizing how important education is, both government and non-government have taken various projects to strengthen girl’s child education.

Realizing the importance of women education, the government, and many non-government organizations took many projects to spread women education. Literacy programs are being taken in favor of women

Importance of Educating the girl child in India

The importance of educating the girl child in the society and the following are some of them

Economic development and prosperity:Educating the girl child will help in empowering them to come forward and contribute towards the prosperity and development of the country

Economic empowerment: Helpless condition can’t be changed for the men if the women are backward and depend on men. Economic independence and empowerment will come when we educate the girl child.

Improved life: Educating of the girl child helps in the improvement of a good life. The identity of the girl won’t be lost. She has the ability to read and learn about her own rights. She won’t be trodden down about her rights. There will be a general improvement on her life.

Improved health: Educated girls bring an awareness of the important of hygiene and health. Through education, they can lead a healthy life style. The women that are educated can carter for their children better.

Dignity and honor: Educated women are now looked upon with dignity and honor. They become a source of inspiration for millions of young girls who make them their role-models.

Choice to choose a profession of her choice:educated girls can prove to be successful in their different professions. When the girl child have the opportunity to be educated, it gives her the better chance to become a successful cook, engineer, doctor or the choice of profession she wants. Girl child education isn’t one to take for granted and this has made many NGO’s in India to pick up interesting to educate the girl child. The society has witness changes in the status of women. There is now greater emphasis on the education of the girl child and the way that they are educated. It is the aspiration of most parents to fulfill without any gender parity.

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Navli Kumari: Rajasthan, India

Navli Kumari grew up in a well-developed district of Rajasthan. Because she lived with her father, who encouraged her to attend school, she was able to study until 12th grade.

When her father passed away, Kumari returned to live in her native village, where traditional gender expectations had kept many girls out of school. Few girls had received even primary education.

In India, over 3.7 million girls do not attend school. The Indian state of Rajasthan has nine of the country’s 26 worst gender gap districts in education.

“It was very disheartening for me,” Kumari says. “Seeing them, I often wondered how I could use my education for the betterment of my community but saw no existing avenue.”

One day, Kumari was approached by a Field Coordinator for Educate Girls, a nonprofit that works across India to get more girls in schools. He explained that the organization was looking for well-educated young women who could persuade families to send their daughters to school. Kumari agreed to work as a volunteer in her village.

Her work was difficult when she first went door-to-door to speak with families. “Many doors were slammed in my face and many abuses were hurled at me. But I knew I had to be patient and persistent,” Kumari explains.

Her persistence has paid off. After four years of volunteering with Educate Girls, she has gotten 46 girls back into school and stopped two child marriages. After years of failed attempts, her village has finally established a school.

Kumari now acts as a leader in her community; she has even decided to run as a candidate in local elections. She says that she is very proud of her work with Educate Girls, as it has given her life purpose.

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Despite evidence demonstrating how central girls’ education is to development, gender disparities in education persist.

Around the world, 129 million girls are out of school, including 32 million of primary school age, 30 million of lower-secondary school age, and 67 million of upper-secondary school age. In countries affected by conflict, girls are more than twice as likely to be out of school than girls living in non-affected countries.

Worldwide, 129 million girls are out of school.

Only 49 per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in primary education. At the secondary level, the gap widens: 42 per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in lower secondary education, and 24 per cent in upper secondary education.

The reasons are many. Barriers to girls’ education – like poverty, child marriage and gender-based violence – vary among countries and communities. Poor families often favour boys when investing in education.

In some places, schools do not meet the safety, hygiene or sanitation needs of girls. In others, teaching practices are not gender-responsive and result in gender gaps in learning and skills development

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(i). India is a developed country with its vast expenditure and culture. Its laws ensure that everyone must be treated the same way. All men, women, children are to be treated equally before the law. Although there is still one situation faced by Indian women and that is "RIGHT TO EDUCATION".

(ii). Many girls are discriminated with boys as people in the rural areas think that sending a boy to school is better than sending a girl to school.

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(iii). Due to this, some girls in India don't know how to even write and read, they are just made to sit in the kitchen the whole day or do household chores.

(iv). When will we soon realize that Girls have the right to go to school and have the right to freedom, freedom like choosing whatever stream they would like to take further in their studies, freedom for going out at night, freedom for making friends with boys of her age group. SHE DESERVES THIS.

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MEASURES TO PROMOTE GIRL CHILD EDUCATION:

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MEASURES TO PROMOTE GIRL CHILD EDUCATION:

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(i) Providing school facilities, the opening of new schools, bringing schools within easy reach of the children, starting girls’ section in boys’ schools, condensed course for adult women, etc.

(ii) Improving the existing schools : Appointment of more qualified and adequate staff including a large number of women teachers; school mothers in mixed schools ;provision of better building and educational equipment and along with it a wide choice of subjects

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(vi) Providing other convenience and inducement. Such as adjustment of school timings and vacation to suit local needs and conditions, free mid-day meals, free medical and health facilities for the school children, establishment of creches etc.

(vii) Shift system: Where co-education is not acceptable, an alternative is to start separate shifts for boys and girls in the same school building, so as to avoid duplication of buildings and equipment’s.

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(iii) Making education free: Granting concession in the form of scholarships to poor and meritorious girl students.

(iv) Educating public opinion: Teacher-parent cooperation, Education of adult women.

(v) Effective enforcement of compulsory education and creation of social climate among the village community to enroll all girls of school going age.