Socio-Economic and Cultural Disparity: A Study on Gender Gap in Mirzapur Village of Aligarh District in Uttar Pradesh, India

Gender inequality is most striking issue of developing India, where gender gap and disparity is visible in almost every aspect of life including social, economic and cultural. The present paper is an attempt by the author to understand and analyse the root causes of gender disparity in Mirzapur village of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, India. The author have done an empirical observation of the village by conducting household survey and found some striking results which have been represented through tables and diagrams in the paper. It has been found that girls are more illiterate than boys in the village and the gap is almost 30 per cent. The Study also highlights that girls are more regular in primary schools than boys and the share considerably increases as the levels of education increases to high secondary and graduation classes. In terms of occupational structure and social life women’s are marginalized but health condition of females are better than males in the village.