We are as good as our future generations, rightly said but, it is us and how we define ourselves that decide how we go about it, for the same I took up public Census 2011 Literate/ Illiterate data from here, and did some analysis on it to get some of the following insights!

Here, the graph is showing all the states and their Literary Rate:

Though, it is great to see that more than 60% of the states have a literacy rate which is greater than that of the national average but the problem lies in the states below, states like bihar are known for making the highest number of IIT and UPSC qualifiers but still such a low literacy rate (50%).

Kerala however, tops the chart by having nearly 86% Literacy Rate one of the factor which greatly influenced the same was the status of women in the province during the per-colonial era, education was made available to women also contrary to other areas in the country faced by a patriarchal society.

Here, below is a graph depicting Male Literacy Rate as a proportion of Female Literacy Rate, i.e., By factor are the males more educated in comparison to females.

The insights are shocking, as Daman & Diu having a Literacy Ratio of 76% has nearly double the Male Literacy Ratio than that of Females, same is the scenario in Bihar even though it has a literacy rate of 50% still it has 1.5 times more number of Male Literates as compared to Females, do females not stand a fair chance to education?

Here, Small states like Meghalaya, Mizoram, Goa, Puducherry, etc. are setting an example for other states by nearly having equal Male and Female Literacy ratio.

Kerala is the only state having more female literacy ratio than male.

To see more about the same in detail lets look at the Gender Ratio of these states:

This shows the exact reason why states like Bihar, Daman & Diu, Haryana, Chandigarh etc have such a high Male Literacy Ratio because females are not welcomed in these states, they’d prefer a boy over a girl any-day.

This also shows the reason why Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu have an equilibrium between the two ratios, because females are given as much importance as a male is, both of them are equal.

So, this brings us to the root cause, that how can one talk about having female and male coming up to speed with each other while we don’t even have an environment conducive enough for females to survive.

I started this post talking about future, lets see what future has in store for us:

As the graph depicts the result are more less the same where the same states having low Gender Ratio are on top, though the scale has decreased from 2.0 to 1.5, which is a relief.

The scale is decreasing which is good but true equality can be achieved only when an equilibrium is reached which means we need to make our future generations aware enough about our current situation.

I’d leave you guys with one graph, just a little food for thought:

Thank You for reading it all along, do share your views on the comments section 🙂