Abul Jahan
Supervisor
Department of Sociology
R.G (P.G) College, Meerut (India)
Prof. Manju Lata
Scholar
Department of Sociology
R.G (P.G) College, Meerut (India)
Abstract
This abstract provides a succinct overview of the multifaceted challenges faced by women when striving to access higher education. Women face a number of challenges in Higher Education. The women are highly motivated to avoid Higher Education. At college level, financial problem is major factor affecting women’s education followed by transportation, gender discrimination, coeducational problem and physical harassment at college level were reported as factors affecting women’s Higher Education. The pursuit of higher education is a crucial avenue for personal growth, economic empowerment, and societal progress. However, gender disparities persist, hindering women’s ability to access and thrive in higher education institutions. The result demonstrated that the major difficulties faced by females in continuing higher education include parents educational level financial problem, social class, traditional customs, false caste system, misunderstood religious belief, society behavior towards coeducation with particular focus to females environment of higher educational institutions, greater distance of educational institutions, prefer boys over girls in getting education, difficulty in studies due to domestic responsibility, lack of females teachers for single sex education institutions, early marital demand. (Shazia Zamir 2013).
In the presented summary, the numerous challenges that women encounter on their educational journey. this paper explores the economic barriers faced by many women, as they struggle to afford tuition fees, books, and transportation, particularly in lower-income households. This paper related to “Women and Challenges in Higher Education” have been compiled on the basis of secondary data.
Keywords: Women, Higher Education, Gender Disparities, Challenges, Co-education.
