1. Changing status of women in
the society:A survey on health and
education of women in slum area jari mari
RESEARCH STUDENT: AAFREEN SHAH ( MA-ECONOMICS) SK SOMAIYA
DEGREE COLLEGE.
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3. Importance of
education for a women
Women empowerment,
Independency- freedom to take right
decisions in life,
Concious about her rights & health,
She Respect of the dignity of womenhood &
appreciates the daughters in the same way,
Development and growth of family in right
direction,
Participation in family decision making and
advise to her husband.(behind every
successful men there is a women),
Overall Economic and social development.
4. Critical issues
Paraya dhan,
Dowry,
Child marriage,
Caste system,
Parda system,
Early marriage.
5. Critical issues related to poor health
of women in society
Son preference-expected to care for
parents in their old age,
expectation for birth of son- less care
and love by parents,
Mistreatment of girls- dowry cost,
Illiteracy.
6. Women in india face the health issues
like:
Malnutritions
Reproductive health,
HIV/AIDS
Breast cancer
Lack of maternal health
7. Malnutrition
Due to the low social status of
Indian women, their diet often lacks in
both quality and quantity. Women who
suffer malnutrition are less likely to
have healthy babies.
In India, mothers generally lack
proper knowledge in feeding children.
Consequently, new born infants are
unable to get adequate amount of
nutrition from their mothers.
8. Facts about maternal mortality
India witnessed nearly 20% of
maternal deaths worlwide between
1992-2006
The primary reasons for the high
levels of maternal mortality are directly
related to disparities of economic
conditions and cultural constraints
limiting access to care
9. Psychological and social
problems
The suicide rate in india is five times
higher than that of the developed nations
The rate of suicide has been found to be
higher in women as campared to that of
men
The most common reasons for women’s
suicide is directly related to:
o Depression,
o Anxiety,
o Gender discrimination,
o Domestic Violence,
o Physical, psychological, and sexual
voilence.
10. FACTS
According to the report of crime
bureau of the central home ministry
o Women is getting kidnapped every 44
minutes
o Raped at every 47 minutes
o 17 dowry deaths every day etc
They may face voilence within the the
family( dowry related harassment or
death,marital rape,deprivation of
healthy food,female genital mutilation
etc)
11. UNICEF actions in maharashtra
towards girls education and health
Unicef in partnership with the
maharashtra government to address
range of the state’s challenges
o Chief among them is malnutrition,
o Intervention that promote
nutrition in mothers during pre-
pregnancy,
Early and exclusive breastfeeding and
complementary feeding in children
younger than 3 years.
12. UNICEF actions
UNICEF in partnership with state and
district education department has
piloted a quality education initiative in
KGBV (kasturba gandhi balika
vidyalaya) educational facilities for
girls
It has also promoted platforms like
meena raju manch (child cabinets) to
address gender inequity in 22000
upper primary schools across the
states.
13. JARI MARI : A SLUM AREA
Jari Mari is a slum area adjacent to
Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shiva
international airport and popular for
scrapers and textile industries.
14. Discussion with the director of NGO-JAGRUTI KENDRA
MAHILA MANDAL 28th january 2016
The NGO is working from last 26
years in this area
The NGO is conducting health care
campaign monthly
Every month the NGO conducts a
session to bring awareness about
education and health
Legal cell – 3-4 cases of domestic
voilence per week
Bachat gat -1500 women’s
15. SAHYOG- NGO
Initiative of chetak trust,
Started its journey in the year 2000 ,
Improving the marginalised status of
communities through social change,
Work spread-dindoshi,
kurla-ghatkopar,govandi,mankhurd,
Over a period of 10 years, more than
800 girls, 10-16 years old passed
through the 2 nonformal schools set up
in jari mari (kurla-andheri), dindoshi
(goregaon east).
16. SPREAD OF LITERACY & NUMBER OF SCHOOLS
IILITERATE
PRIMARY EDUCATION
SSC PASSED
HSC PASSED
GRADUATE
POST GRADUATE
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Spread of Education level
Spread of Education level
Most of the women's in the area are illiterate and have
attended only the primary education. There is only 1
municipal school and 4 private schools i.e ST JUDE’S HIGH
SCHOOL, KARTIKA SCHOOL, GULSHAN E MILLAT AND
LITTLE FLOWER, there are 15 teachers in the municipal
school the school provides the primary education only up till
standard 5.There are only 2 % of women's attended UG and
PG each, they are unemployed and parent depended
17. Marital & employment status of an educated
women
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
married
unmarried
Marital status of an educated women
Marital status of an educated women
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Married
unmarried
Employment status
parent dependent
self employed
House wifes
18. Marital and employment status of primary educated
women
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Married
Unmarried
Marital status
marital status
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120%
Married
Unmarried
Employment status
parent dependent
self employed
house wifes
19. Marital & employment status of
Illilterate women
All the womens are married
Non of them are working & all are
house wifes.
20. Over all medical checkups & number of children’s
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
LITERATE
PRIMARY EDUCATED
ILLITERATE
Medical checkups
Yearly
Half yearly
Monthly
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8
ILLITERATE
LITERATE
Number of children's
more than 3 childrens
3 childrens
2 childrens
1 child
21. Service of government in this area
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Private schools
Municipal schools
private hospitals
municipal hospitals
Quality of services
POOR
GOOD
SERVICE OF GOVERNEMENT
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Service of government
POOR
GOOD
22. Health issues & psychological problems
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
SUFFERING FROM THYROID,DIABETES,BLOOD
PRESSURE,AND OTHER HEART DISEASES
Health issues
NO
YES
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION AND
HYPERTENSION
psychological problems
NO
YES
23. Suggestions
As maximum of women’s are illiterate there is a need for initiating
educational programs not only for a girl child but also for an adults.
To uplift the society there is a need for promoting development of women's
and that is possible only through education and better medical and health
care facilities.
Health services need to be improved in municipal hospital.
There is a need to open up more municipal hospitals with qualified
doctors,better medical equipments and health care services.
Creating new setup of skill development courses for creating employment
opportunities for women's.
Not only on government but women's too at an individual and group level
must start up something based on talent they equipped.
Municipals schools needed to be well organised and managed and must be
open up a gate for secondary and higher educations.
Private schools needed to reduce their fees as the income level is very low.
The NGO’s must coduct more programs and campaign in a week rather than
once a month
Counselling cells are needed to be formed for providing a peaceful
environment and reducing stress.
24. conclusion
There is a lack of awareness about importance of
health and education, maximum women's are found to
be illiterate suffering from various disease living their life
in depression etc, with a right education women's get to
know about their rights they can raise their voice
against the violence happening on them, maximum
makes their habits of suffering until an unless they won’t
get educated they can’t improve their quality of life,
NGO’S are working but the government is actually
sleeping, SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN an initiation
towards promoting education formed but still not
implemented in actual sense, the government need to
take the issue more seriously,. an educated women's
knows the value of a quality life, controlling birth rate,
she respect the dignity of womanhood care for herself
and also her entire family, when a women is educated
the entire family gets educated with her.
