Title: Analysing male and female parents' incentives vis-à-vis gender sensitisation in urban Rajasthan

Authors: Shailja Khanduri; Nikita Goel

Addresses: Department of Extension Education (DEE), Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer, India ' Sophia Girls' College Ajmer, Ajmer, Rajasthan-305001, India

Abstract: This paper discusses characteristic gender inequality issues and analyses the effect of gender and education of parents on the same. The study also analyses some of the social and economic aspects of urban adult population in urban Rajasthan. The results show that a girl's future progress is positively associated with the education of her parents. Further, the difference in outlook towards girl child's social status (in comparison to male sibling) is associated with the education level of the parents and is not gender specific. A remarkable conclusion of the study is no statistically significant association of education or gender of parent on the girl child's future independence. The awareness about the gender inequality issues is not gender specific. However, the study identifies a worrying sign that only about 50% urban parents were aware of gender inequality issues.

Keywords: gender inequality; gender sensitisation; education; chi-square statistics; urban Rajasthan; gender bias; women issues; patriarchy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGSDS.2019.096782

International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies, 2019 Vol.3 No.1, pp.75 - 98

Received: 10 Jul 2018
Accepted: 04 Sep 2018
Published online: 10 Dec 2018 *

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