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Table 5.11: Rural Female Literacy by StateIndia/States Value Rank States Value RankIndia 46.1 – Andhra Pradesh 43.5 12Assam 50.7 6 Bihar 29.6 17Chhattisgarh 47.0 10 Gujarat 47.8 9Haryana 49.3 7 Jharkhand 29.9 16Karnataka 48.0 8 Kerala 86.7 1Madhya Pradesh 42.8 13 Maharashtra 58.4 2Orissa 46.7 11 Punjab 57.7 3Rajasthan 37.3 14 Tamil Nadu 55.3 4Uttar Pradesh 36.9 15 West Bengal 53.2 5Source: Census of India, 2001Rural female literacy is generally high in Maharashtra - only 6 out of 33 districts go below 50 percent(taking Nanded's 49.95 percent as being equal to 50 percent). Besides the hill districts of Gadchiroliand Nandurbar, the districts with low rural female literacy are in Marathwada - Jalna, Parbhnai, Hingoli,Nanded, Bid and Aurangabad. Surprisingly, the region around Nagpur - Amravati, Akola, Wardha,Nagpur and Gondiya are all in the highest category (Table 5.12 and Map 5.6).Map 5.6: Status of Rural Female LiteracyProportion of Rural FemaleLiterates (7+ Age Group) (in %)64.88 - 71.0958.66 - 64.8852.45 - 58.6646.23 - 52.4540.02 - 46.23ACCESS TO FOOD55
Table 5.12: Rural Female Literacy in MaharashtraDistrict Value Rank District Value Rank District Value Rank(%) (%) (%)Ahmadnagar 61.14 12 Hingoli 48.26 29 Pune 60.74 14Akola 69.13 3 Jalgaon 59.56 16 Raigarh 63.64 9Amravati 71.09 1 Jalna 44.62 32 Ratnagiri 63.56 10Aurangabad 51.59 26 Kolhapur 60.70 15 Sangli 63.47 11Bhandara 65.19 8 Latur 55.88 21 Satara 66.45 6Bid 51.00 27 Nagpur 66.56 5 Sindhudurg 69.83 2Buldana 60.99 13 Nanded 49.95 28 Solapur 56.12 19Chandrapur 56.04 20 Nandurbar 40.02 33 Thane 52.59 25Dhule 55.65 23 Nashik 55.80 22 Wardha 68.57 4Gadchiroli 46.05 30 Osmanabad 54.40 24 Washim 57.56 18Gondiya 65.55 7 Parbhani 45.48 31 Yavatmal 58.48 17Source: As stated in Table 3.4, Variable B6.Box 5.1 Female Literacy: The Pivot for Reducing Food Insecurity and Child MortalityRecent research findings from 35 demographic and health surveys have brought out that children of mothers with no education aremore than twice as likely to die or to be malnourished compared with children of mothers who have secondary or higher education.Further, mothers with limited literacy and educational skills are much less likely to receive trained support during pregnancy andchildbirth. In Nigeria, for instance, only 15 percent of births amongst uneducated women are assisted by trained medical personnel,compared to 56 percent of births among women with primary education and 88 percent among women with higher education.Source: Save the Chil dren, 20065.7 Women's Workforce ParticipationWomen's workforce participation improves the household's access to food, and is also likely to improvewomen's own access to food - following Amartya Sen's argument that women's independent incomewould increase their bargaining power within the household. At the same time, women's participationin the rural workforce is likely to be inversely related to a household's food security situation. It wouldbe highest among agricultural labourers and go down as one moves up land cultivating categories.Women's workforce participation is also likely to be related to caste and ethnicity – higher amongSTs and lower as one goes up the caste ladder. Thus, one can expect a negative relation betweenwomen's workforce participation and the household's food security in a rural situation. It is in urbanhouseholds that the relationship between food security and women's workforce participation maygo both ways. For rural food security, we can continue to use women's workforce participation asbeing negatively related to the food security situation, with high participation being associated with a56 FOOD SECURITY ATLAS OF RURAL MAHARASHTRA
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Food Security AtlasOfRURAL MAHARASH
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Copyright © 2010The UN World Food
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TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUPChairperson
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PrefaceIndia is home to more than a
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ContentsForewardPrefaceAcknowledgem
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List of Tables, Figures, Maps and B
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List of AbbreviationsADAPTAIDISAPLA
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Executive SummaryExecutive SummaryF
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capacities and knowledge.Measures t
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1. Introduction1. IntroductionIndia
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production. This portion of the con
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panchayats, the panchayats perform
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Table 8.1: Key Interventions in Pri
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Government of India (2007a), The Sc
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Srivastava, Ravi, 1997, “Rural La
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obligation of the state to provide
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Name of Variable and Description So
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The basic objective of using PCA is
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Table A3.3:Index Values and Normati
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