Role of Education: 

Women in our country are, standing shoulder to shoulder with men in all various fields—Social, political, economic, administrative, Cultural and literary. They are playing their constructive role to shape the society. It is the education which has been a dominating factor in moulding the overall status of women in the society. In the year 1961, the male literacy percentage was 40 whereas the female literacy percentage was 15. By the year 1971 the female literacy percentage rose to 22% and by 2001 it touched 54.16%.

This big change has been made possible due to various steps taken by the state government to make easy access of the girls, especially, the deprived girls of the society to the schools. Some of the steps taken in this regard are distribution of free books, free uniforms, scholarships, mid-day food, Scholarships and Ladali yojana. The most recent step taken in this direction by the government of India is the Right to Education Act. According to this act, children (girls and boys) between 6 to 14 years have been given the right to free and compulsory education.

The Central Human Resources Development Ministry has taken the decision to give full attention to the Women education under the National Literacy Mission and about 80% women are estimated to be literate by 2017 under this Yojana. As a result of rise in the female literacy percentage, the number of women employees in the government and non-government as well as autonomous institutions is increasing.

The spread of women literacy has narrowed the gap between the male and the female employees. In the year 1995, the ratio of women employees in the government services was 7.43% as compared to the male employees, which rose to 7.53% in 2001 and 9.68% in 2004. Though it has not been a very satisfactory achievement but the growing gap between the women and men literacy rate has been narrowed. In Delhi ratio of women has been found to be more than that of men.