Significant gains in women education, digital access, and economic agency but social constraints persist, NFHS-6 finds
The NFHS-6 survey reveals improvements in women's education, digital access, and economic agency in India, yet significant social constraints remain. While school attendance among women has increased, property ownership and early marriage continue to pose challenges. Additionally, the survey indicates a decline in spousal violence, but disparities in health behaviors persist between genders.
- ▪73.7% of women have attended school, up from 71.8% in the previous survey.
- ▪Women’s ownership of property remains below 20%, increasing only slightly from 14% to 18.8%.
- ▪22.3% of ever-married women reported experiencing spousal violence, a decrease from 29.2% in the last survey.
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The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) data, 2023-24, tell a complex story of Indian women — with significant gains in education, digital access and economic agency, but also persistent social constraints including low property ownership, being married before the legal age of 18 and bearing the burden of family planning.The survey shows that 73.7% of women have attended school, an uptick from 71.8% recorded in NFHS-5 survey (2019–21), women with over ten years of schooling also went up from 41% to 46.4%, while internet use among women has nearly doubled from 33.2% to 64.3%. Explained | Is there a rural bias in national surveys?However, women’s ownership of a house or land, either alone or jointly, has stayed below 20% rising from 14% to 18.8%.
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