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Does women’s education help to eradicate patriarchal discriminations? Reflect with illustrations.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Systems of Kinship

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From Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) to Savitribai and Jyotirao Phule's girls' school in Pune (1848), education has been treated as the key to women's emancipation. The Indian evidence shows that education erodes patriarchal discrimination substantially but does not eradicate it. Patriarchy can absorb educated women on its own terms.

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  • How education weakens patriarchy
  • Why education alone does not eradicate patriarchy
  • What makes education transformative
  • Conclusion
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