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Educate the girls.
by lapama 4y ago
Educate the girls.
- farseer 4y ago[flagged]
- gautamdivgi 4y agoAbsolutely!! And encourage them to take up a career.
- rusticpenn 4y agoIn my experience, more Indian girls/women ( as a %) are in STEM than in Western Europe or USA.
- mc32 4y agoThis is true for upper middle and so on. But the big numbers (of undereducated) are in the lower classes.
- yamtaddle 4y agoAFAIK this is the norm for countries that aren't so repressive as to deny women education or the (realistic) ability to have a career, but that do offer less overall opportunity or freedom (in practice, if not de jure) than your average liberal "western"-model country, and have middling per-capita GDP.
- dartharva 4y agoIndian students (and more importantly, their parents) are generally averse to non-STEM fields when it comes to education. Getting through engineering/medical colleges is literally a part of the default life cycle in the current generation of middle-class India.
- rirze 4y agowouldn't this decrease the fertility factor more? It also doesn't address existing economic issues with different society classes (e.g. Hindu vs Muslim)
- lapama 4y agoWell, gender imbalances are an economic issue.
- unmole 4y ago> It also doesn't address existing economic issues with different society classes (e.g. Hindu vs Muslim) Muslims in Kerala have a much lower fertility than Hindus in Bihar. The impact of religion on fertility in India is vastly overstated.
- amriksohata 4y agoEspecially Muslim girls are less likely to be allowed to get an education, some areas are very conservative