Gender Disparity in Literacy in Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh: A Geographical Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.48001/978-81-966500-4-9-8Keywords:
Developement, Chamba District, Gender Disparity, Literacy, Disparity IndexAbstract
Literacy is an important component for the poverty eradication and for cultivation of friendly relationship, for attaining quality of life and enabling effective demographic processes. The present paper aims to examine disparity in literacy between male and females in the least literate district of Himachal Pradesh i.e. Chamba at the block level. The Sopher index has been used to calculate disparity among males and females and simple percentage method has been used for computing the literacy and its various components. It has been concluded from the study that in 2001 only three blocks namely Chamba, Bhattiyat and Bharmaur were falling under the low gender disparity category and two blocks namely Tisa and Saluni came under the high gender disparity category. In 2011 all the blocks witnessed low gender disparity because of increase in the availability of educational institutions, reduction in discrimination among females, generation of awareness among the parents.
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