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Female Education Changes and Continuation of Gender Roles in Urban India by Ambika Kohli
Article 26 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights is
perceived as an important tool for
women’s empowerment through
which women can break different
sociocultural barriers. But a
qualitative study conducted
among 45 married urban women
in Delhi and Yamuna Nagar
district of Haryana explains how
education is used to maintain the
existing gender hierarchies and
gender division of labour. It
highlights that reproduction and
transformation of social
structures are evident in a
novel manner where ideas of
women’s emancipation and
subordination coexist.
