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Becker’s Coefficient as a Tool of Measuring Gender Disparities: Analysis of Literacy in India
United Nations Development Programmes has given at most importance to inequality analysis in its human development report 2010. It has paved greater ways and scope for further understanding and analysing width and depth of inequalities in all the spares of development. In this regard the present wor...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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International Journal of Social and Economic Research
2012
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005958.pdf |
| Summary: | United Nations Development Programmes has given at most importance to inequality analysis in its
human development report 2010. It has paved greater ways and scope for further understanding and
analysing width and depth of inequalities in all the spares of development. In this regard the present
work is an attempt to analyse the gender disparities in educational development of India. For the
purpose we have used decadal time series census data from the period 1981 to 2011. Becker’s coefficient
was used to measure the extent of discrimination exist in literacy level in Indian states. Discriminate
coefficient can take any value from zero to infinity. Higher the discriminate value, higher is the
discrimination and vice versa. We have analysed gender discrimination in literacy for major seventeen
Indian states including Jammu Kashmir and Delhi. It is found from the study that the discrimination has
reduced over the period of time but still exists. Mean time the higher discriminate value is registered in
the economically backward states like, Bihar, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The lower discriminate
value is registered in Kerala which is got highest rank in human development of India and Delhi which
is the capital city of India. The discriminate value is moderate in remaining other states. Hence economic
and human developments are prerequisite for reducing gender disparity in Indian education system in
general and literacy in particular. |
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| Physical Description: | pp. 15-21 Vol. 2, Issue 1, January-June 2012 |