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Women’s higher education enrolment up 42.2% since 2014-15, AISHE survey shows
Women’s higher education enrolment up 42.2% since 2014-15, AISHE survey shows
Women's enrolment in higher education has risen 42.2% since 2014-15, according to the All India Survey on Higher Education for 2023-24, Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, chairman of IIM Calcutta's board of governors and…
Women's enrolment in higher education has risen 42.2% since 2014-15, according to the All India Survey on Higher Education for 2023-24, Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, chairman of IIM Calcutta's board of governors and a former UGC chairman, wrote in a New Indian Express opinion piece. He cites a female gross enrolment ratio of 31.2 and a Gender Parity Index that has favoured women, at 1.08, for seven straight years, with gains extending to women from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. India's higher-education system now spans 1,289 universities and 48,426 colleges, including 18 exclusively for women and 4,787 women-only colleges, and nearly 45% of its teachers are women. Kumar notes that women make up 31% of engineering and technology students against 54.6% in science, and points to loan, apprenticeship and scholarship schemes as institutional support for the trend.
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Kumar's piece argues for treating the enrolment numbers as decisive progress, citing PM-USHA, Vigyan Jyoti and PM-Vidyalaxmi as evidence that institutional support is following the gains. It poses questions of its own: whether degrees are translating into sustained work and whether institutions are supportive enough, and why engineering participation still lags general science at 31% against 54.6%. Faculty representation has risen from 63 to 82 women per 100 men over the decade but has not reached parity, in the piece's own words. The test Kumar sets himself is the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2025 ratio he cites, 32.4 per cent of women graduates and 42.9 per cent of postgraduates in work, since that is where enrolment either converts into employment or does not.
Source: www.newindianexpress.com
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