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| Published: September 02, 2024
Femininity Complex in Indian Society and the Role of NEP in Gender Parity
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya, Satna, Madhya Pradesh
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Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya, Satna, Madhya Pradesh
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DIP: 18.01.167.20241203
DOI: 10.25215/1203.167
ABSTRACT
In 2015, Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao was launched in India, witnessing the alarming drop in the country’s child-sex ratio due to rising female infanticide and dowry cases, encouraging families to change their tabooed mindset towards the existence of girl-child. This study was undertaken to understand the perspective and experience of female students towards education and the requirement of the New Education Policy based on the critical feedback received from an in-depth semi-structured interview of 20 female students (18-28 years) of MGCGV, Chitrakoot, Satna, M.P. The study aimed to shed light on how education provides existential value, exploring the connection between the education sector and the BBBP scheme, and elaborating on the core reasons for the ineffectiveness of the policy from a psycho-socio-cultural perspective. The interview results have been divided into five sections which yielded the perception of female students towards the quality of education, failure of the Utilitarian model of education, psychological gaps in the BBBP campaign due to the Masculinity- Femininity complex in Indian society and the potential benefits of NEP in evolving the collective consciousness of Indian society’s psyche through integrative value-based education. In conclusion, the study has aimed to study the femininity complex in Indian society which requires a culturally and spiritually rich educational rectification to eradicate the violence based upon sexism and sow seeds for a society that recognizes the value of a woman for who she is in her mind and soul, free from crisis based structures that encourage symbolical death of her femininity for survival, providing generous space for her to use her potential, and contribute her part in the development of society fearlessly.
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Femininity complex, New Education Policy, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Feminine Psychology, Gender Education
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2024, Mishra, K. & Khangarot, R.
Received: June 12, 2024; Revision Received: August 29, 2024; Accepted: September 02, 2024
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.167.20241203
10.25215/1203.167
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Published in Volume 12, Issue 3, July-September, 2024