TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender differentials in inequality of educational opportunities
T2 - New evidence from an Indian youth study
AU - Singh, Ashish
AU - Singh, Abhishek
AU - Pallikadavath, Saseendran
AU - Ram, Faujdar
N1 - Funding Information:
We express our thanks to the two anonymous reviewers for comments and suggestions on an earlier draft. This article was written when Ashish Singh was a PhD candidate at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Using data from the ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ survey, this article provides perhaps the first estimates of inequality of opportunity in schooling outcomes for males and females separately for six Indian states. The inequality of educational opportunity in completion of primary (and secondary) schooling among females is more than twice (and nearly twice) that among males. Further, among females, only 20 per cent of total schooling opportunities needed for universal completion of secondary schooling are available and equitably distributed, a figure substantially lower than that for males (35 per cent). We also find stark inter-state variations in gender differential in inequality of educational opportunities.
AB - Using data from the ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ survey, this article provides perhaps the first estimates of inequality of opportunity in schooling outcomes for males and females separately for six Indian states. The inequality of educational opportunity in completion of primary (and secondary) schooling among females is more than twice (and nearly twice) that among males. Further, among females, only 20 per cent of total schooling opportunities needed for universal completion of secondary schooling are available and equitably distributed, a figure substantially lower than that for males (35 per cent). We also find stark inter-state variations in gender differential in inequality of educational opportunities.
KW - Gender
KW - India
KW - Inequality of educational opportunity
KW - Primary schooling
KW - Secondary schooling
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U2 - 10.1057/ejdr.2013.35
DO - 10.1057/ejdr.2013.35
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088822344
SN - 0957-8811
VL - 26
SP - 707
EP - 724
JO - European Journal of Development Research
JF - European Journal of Development Research
IS - 5
ER -