A STUDY OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN STUDENTS EDUCATION BY PARENTS- A PILOT STUDY

BACKGROUND: India is a male dominant society and gender discrimination is customized. Habitually females are facing lots of discrimination against them. Some of them are not given enough nutritious food, not allowed to go to school, (denying education), discrimination in admitting girl’s student and boys to convent school, not giving needy health care when the girl child is ill-health. The other issues include early marriage, eve teasing, abortion with the help of scanning techniques, dowry, rape, sexual harassment, divorce. The study of socio-cultural aspects on gender perception among college students and their response of their attitude were evaluated. Sample consisting of 150 girls and 150 boys as respondents belonging to Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Urdu speaking students from different colleges both unisex and co-education were studied. This study is aimed at assessing the gender perception, 60.6 percent boys felt that the girls are not protected by the parents, 26.6 percent are not protected by the society, and the study was concerned more with the social group interaction and social mobility in the campus. Planning commission must design strategy for the holistic approach of women empowerment in the society by formulating policies and programs; and the government has to improve the female literacy rate.