Status of Women in India with Particular Reference to Gap in Male Female Literacy Rate in India

Womanly education ensures not only better development of civilization, but to teach after that generation too. Education is landmark of women empowerment since it facilitates them to responds to the challenges, to confront their customary appearance and revolutionize their living. Gender disparity in education sector is a dilemma for a nation like India, where women constituting more than 50% of the country’s human capital, still faces literacy – gendergaps as 16.68%. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the correlation of female education with Human Development Index (HDI), based on the statistics procured from secondary sources. This manuscript also explains the significance of women education in the social and economic development of India. In this paper we can’t neglect the importance of education in reference to women empowerment India is hover to becoming superpower, a developed country by 2020. Education also brings a reduction in inequalities and functions as a means of improving their status within the family.