Socio - Economic Development and Gender Inequality in India

This paper focus on Gender is a common term where as gender discrimination is meant only for women, because females are the only victims of gender discrimination. Eleventh plan witnessed economy strength in many dimensions and is well prepared to achieve faster, sustainable and inclusive growth. Twelfth five year plan aims at inclusive growth which should result in lower incidence of poverty, broad-based and significant improvement in health outcomes, universal access for children to school, increased access to higher education and improved standards of education, including skill development. The study of status of women is very much complicated. In a developing nation like India, women’s lower status is reflected not only in their work being underpaid, un-recognized, but also in their limited access to productive resources and support services such as health and education. The focus of this paper is on issues concerning gender disparities in the context of India so as to examine the nature of prevalent discrimination and biases against women. It is clear from the above cited information is that our government is keen in feminine advancement. All these schemes have a positive impact on female advancement. Girl baby’s birth rate which was considered as negative in many parts of India, government awareness programs had changed this negativity. Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) though has decreased considerably during 2007 to 2016. Keywords: Gender discrimination, Women Empowerment, Economic Independence.