An Empirical Study on Gender Difference in Parental Investment with Special Reference to Education of Their Children

Abstract

Gender differences in parental investment of a child's education  could arise for a number of reasons. Parents could simply directly prefer children of a specific gender. Gender difference in India means health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India. Gender difference is largely the result of the deeply ingrained systems of patriarchy. Discrimination against women begins before birth and called this systemic subordination. Gender inequality in India is an important problem that affects both men and women.To explore whether there is a wide gap among men and women in education and learning opportunities.The research method followed by the researcher is empirical research method.Simple convenient sampling .Total sample size is 205.Independent variables and dependent variables are used by the researcher .Statistics tools used by the researcher are Pie chart and bar graph.It was found that most of the urban area people are aware of right to education comparing to rural area people.Few parents think that no direct benefit for them to invest in girl child education.Most of the parents they are eagerly willing to spend on their girl and boy child education without any gender difference.Finally it is concluded that there is no wide gap between men and women in education and learning opportunities.