Women education in ancient india

In the recent years, Worldwide, gender equity and Women empowerment is mostly discussed issue. Most of the discussions on women are centered around human resource development. Women empowerment issues had more concern in the ancient India which are reflected in Sanskrit literature and educating women was the strategy even in ancient time. To empower women, specific roles to women in Indian traditions are assigned to manage the households. Indian ancient knowledge provides a direction through a value system for gender equity and women empowerment so that women can be comfortable and in welfare. Therefore, there is a need to probe into Sanskrit literature to understand the traditions  of women education, thereby their empowerment. This would help us to develop a suitable strategy for the gender equity and women empowerment. Such an attempt is made in this paper.

The main purpose of this paper is to analyses the women education and their social status in the ancient India. The specific objectives are to review the women education in the ancient India and to understand the Strategy of women empowerment that Indian ancient knowledge provides. Paper is descriptive in nature and based on reviewing ancient literature. Women education, status of women in ancient society as reflected by Sanskrit literature are discussed in the paper.