Number of girls migrating for education rising – Diligent IAS 22/07/2019 – Posted in: Daily News

NUMBER OF GIRLS MIGRATING FOR EDUCATION RISING

 

For: Mains

Topics covered: Girls migrating for education, significance, Highlights

 

News Flash

More girls are moving out of their states in search of education.

  • This heartening trend emerges from the just-released census in 2011.

 

Highlights

  • Girls went from being over a third the number of boys who migrated out of their state for education in 1992-2001 to almost the number of boys by the 2011 census.
  • This change in the gender skew was highest in states such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh.
  • Women migrating for work or employment increased by 31% compared to just 10% for men.
  • Women’s share in the total number of people migrating for work, over six million, was just 12% in 2011, a marginal increase from 10% in 2001.
  • The number of boys migrating across states for education in the nine years preceding the census grew by 13% compared to the nine years before the 2001 census, the jump for girls was four times higher at 52%.

 

Region-wise

  • In Delhi, the number of girls doing so increased by more than one and a half times.
  • In Bihar, Odisha, and MP, the number of girls migrating out of the state for education almost doubled in 2011 over the 2001 numbers.
  • Rajasthan jumped by 82% and in Uttar Pradesh by 78%.
  • In both censuses, Kerala was the only state which saw more girls than boys migrating for education, with the skew increasing in 2011.
  • In Punjab and Tamil Nadu girls were over 82% and 74% of the number of boys leaving for education in other states.
  • Bihar was at the bottom, where girls were just 23% of the number of boys leaving for studies.
  • In Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh this proportion was low, about 36% and 39%, respectively.
  • Women’s share in those migrating for work was the lowest in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, just over 7% in 2011.
  • The highest share was in Chhattisgarh, with women constituting 29%, followed by Kerala with 25% and Karnataka with 20%.

 

Source: TOI

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