".the intervention succeeded in making attitudes more supportive of gender equality and coaxing more gender-equal behavior. Moreover, the impacts persisted." Gender inequality is rife in India. While boys and girls start secondary school at the same rate, only 0.80 girls enroll in tertiary schooling for every boy (World Bank 2011).
Gender sensitised school curriculum in Punjab
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Mon, Mar 8 2021 18:51 IST |
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Gender sensitised school curriculum in Punjab. (Photo:Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Chandigarh, March 8 : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday launched the Department of School Education s partnership with Breakthrough and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to integrate a gender sensitisation curriculum for government schools.
The curriculum, Taaron Ki Toli (TKT), is for students between the age of 10 and 14 years.
Breakthrough s curriculum was first introduced into schools in Haryana in 2012 and in an evaluation by J-PAL South Asia it helped significantly improving gender attitudes and behaviours.
29 December 2020 -
The recently released partial data from the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5) has revealed two counts on which the country has regressed. Child nutrition has become worse in the last five years, wiping off our gains of the previous 20 years, and in five states, over 30 per cent of women aged 18-49 years have experienced spousal violence.
The percentage of stunted, wasted and underweight children has grown in the majority of states. Rates of stunting have risen in rich states such as Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and Himachal Pradesh, all of which had lowered their rates of stunting in the previous two decades. In case of spousal violence, Karnataka is the most concerning case; spousal violence in the state has doubled to 44.4 per cent, up from 20.9 per cent in NFHS 4 (2015-16). The other states where spousal violence continues to hover above 30 per cent are Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Bihar and Mizoram.