Gender Disparity Essay

Gender disparity is a social disease much seen in rural area than the urban areas. Gender inequality is a well-known and still widespread reality in the developing countries. Gender disparity in terms of child population, literacy rate and work participation rate stands in rural society. Gender disparity is one of the most important barriers of overall development in society. Literacy is an important tool for the development in society, especially female literacy. It is regarded as both a means and end of development (Azim 2005). Because female literacy rate increase women empowerment in society. The gender discrimination to female literacy hinders the development of society and nation in large scale. The denial of basic rights is also the

Female work participation rate is less than the male work participation. Female workers get work for earning only in a particular seasons of the year and so they remain unemployed or without any job or business through the rest year. In primary sector the female workers can get a less amount of wage. In some cases the guardians do not send their female members to work outside their home because of their superstation thinking. The female worker is not so efficient in any kind labourers work as a male worker. So the employers prefer male worker to female worker. In the study area female workers are also bound to look after their households. They have many duties and responsibilities to execute. So they can not invest enough time in a labourers work. So they are not so preferred by the employers. For all these gender disparity in work participation rate is on increasing day by day. It has a bad impact on female society so their empowerment decreases. They are lagging behind from being self depended. They are to depend on male and so sometimes they become the victim of negligence. Their education is not done properly. Poverty and malnutrition are also handing their life. In this region the female work participation both main and marginal, shows a very disappointing trend. In the year 2001 the female work participation rate has lessened to a lamentable degree. In order to reduce the gender discrimination in work participation rate, the equal distribution of occupational facilities among the both gender should be provided.

Table 4: Composite Index of Gender Disparity (CIGD) for Child Population, Literacy Rate and Work Participation Rate in Nalhati-II Block, Birbhum District.