Engendering the Education Landscape: Insights from Policy and Practice

Abstract

The paper focuses on analyzing the education landscape through gender lens to map the significant changes and lessons learnt both at the policy and practice levels. It critically examines how gender has been interpreted in policy and addressed within government flagship initiatives in the specific context of the State of Rajasthan. It argues that the primary focus at the implementation level has been on bringing gender parity in numbers and a lesser focus on examining the unequal gender relations and transforming existing inequalities through education. In the emerging context of Right to Education Act 2009, the paper makes a case for giving centrality to the intersections between quality education and gender equality.