Indian Women: Educational and Empowerment , VOL -2

Contents:- Vol-2 # Contents, Foreword ix Preface xi Introduction xiii List of Tables xv One Women and Education 1, Factors Retarding the Progress of Women’s Education; Middle School - Girl Drop-outs; Education for Girls in the Age Group 14-17 Years; Education for Girls in the Age Group 17 Years and Above; Administrative Measures Two Educational Development 11, Education and Women’s Status — The 19th Century View; Post Independence Era — New Roles and Rights; Traces of Ambivalence between old and new views; Progress of Women’s Education in India: The Formal Education System; Development in the Pre-Independence Period; Development in the Post-Independence Period; Differences in the Enrolment of Boys and Girls; Present Position; Enrolment as an Index of Educational Advance: Problems of Retention, Wastage and Stagnation; Out Turn; Growth of Institutions; Women Teachers; Inspection; Attitudes to the Education of Girls and Women; Reasons for Slow Progress in Girls’ Education