abstract:The Gender Parity Index (GPI) is a socioeconomic index usually designed to measure the relative access to education of males and females. In its simplest form, it is calculated as the quotient of the number of females by the number of males enrolled in a given stage of education (primary, secondary, etc.
Net Enrollment Ratio in primary education had increased from 58% in 1999 to 76% by 2010 and the Genderparityindex from 0.85 to 0.93 over the same period of time.
While male literacy rate is 71.6 percent, it is only 44.5 percent for women, revealing GenderParityIndex (GPI) at 0.62, with women still lagging behind men by more than 27 percentage points.