E-StoreFewer girls at IIT..And an all women-IIT coming soon.
Lets begin with the myths ..
• Myth 1: Women are emotional while tech is strictly logical. As a result, they don’t go together.
• Myth 2: Men are good at math and machines while women have no clue about these.
• Myth 3: Men are the providers while women are nurturers.
• Myth 4: Technical women are unattractive, arrogant, and abnormal.
• Myth 5: Women can’t do it because they are made that way: the divine or the evolution argument.
• Myth 6: Women aren’t as good at visualising as men, and hence, don’t make good engineers.
Now read this para from an article ..umm...from 2006.
How many women were in your class when you were at IIT? Not much more than you can count on your fingers, right?
The IITs are now doing something to improve the situation — they are slashing the application fees for women. Here’s an article from the Times of India:
To encourage more girls to apply, the IITs have now slashed the application fee for women by half. So, while men have to pay Rs 600, women pay just Rs 300.
"There is a socio-economic factor at work here. Most Indian families still don’t want to spend too much on getting their daughters admitted to higher-education courses, especially if they have sons to provide for. Hence, we have made this concession for our girl students," V K Tewari, chairman of IITJEE, told TOI.
He, however, insisted that though only 321 girls could make it to the IITs in 2005 as against 4,771 boys, if one compares the percentage of success — keeping in mind the number of applications from each gender — the difference is not much. Thus 26% of male applicants were successful compared to 18.68% girls.
Bringing down the application fees seems to have paid off. While 25,000-odd women applied last year, this year the number has spiralled to approximately 60,000. IIT Kharagpur, which is the organising IIT for IITJEE 2006, feels that the number of women who will finally crack the exam will automatically improve.
Till date the situation is more or less the same....now instead of 600 and 300 ...we pay 1000 and 500....
The ratio has improved ...but it still sux.
After the talks of new IITs and increasing the number of seats in the existing ones, HRD ministry is mulling over a proposal to setup an all women IIT, at Amravati near Nagpur. Dated: 25th May 2009.
The suggestion to start India’s first all-women IIT at Amravati near Nagpur in Vidarbha had in fact been mooted by Saint Gadgebaba University vice-chancellor Kamal Singh. Patil followed it up when she became the country’s first woman president last July.
Patil, concerned about fewer girl students making it to the IITs, personally talked to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and HRD Minister Arjun Singh about the proposal, which apparently led to the speedy progress in the matter. [source]
The decision is not yet out, but I will be damn surprised to see an all-women IIT.
The basic issue I have with govt.’s approach is their (probable) understanding that girls do not apply to IITs because of boys!
Well, such issues needs to be evaluated with bottoms-up approach, i.e. solve the decreasing female student number in schools/lower education – understand why they are quitting instead of pumping your vote bank.
What i've observed : See ..Its not just IIT ...its the engineering stream as a whole ...
Even at my school..fewer girls were there in non med than med....( though commerce is full of both the sexes.)
So are we running short of girls ..or girls are running short of so-called-brains needed to crack jee ? ..I dont think so ...
....Is it that big of a problem ? Can all-women iit sort it out .??
The exact answer, however, only a girl can tell.
source: compilation
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