Women Education, Employment and Gender-Discrimination

In addition to sex differences in the availability of schooling and in enrolment patterns; there are other types of sex inequalities in educational opportunity that have implications for economic rules. Many educational systems are characterized by pervasive sex-linked streaming, with the result that girls are not offered the same curriculum, standards, and programme options as boys. The nature of this streaming rarely derives from traditional sex-role norms or the traditional division of labour between the sexes, but instead reflects trends and practices. Pre-vocational and vocational programmes usually tract females into homemaking or domestic science courses, while males are taught skills which may lead to remunerative employment. When females are offered career training courses, they are usually encouraged to choose terminal vocational programmes that prepare them for a limited range of sex-stereotyped jobs. Taking into account the need for study of the problem of women education, employment and gender discrimination the present study specifically examined the women education, employment and various aspects responsible for gender discrimination in backward region like Hyderabad-Karnataka of Karnataka state.