GENDER DISPARITY OF LITERACY AMONG INFORMAL WORKERS AT IMPHAL CITY, MANIPUR

Abstract

Gender disparity is a social issue that exists in most of the societies. Literacy rate is one of the key indicators of development of a country. Gender disparity in literacy is considered as one of the basic problems of the Northeastern region of India as well as Indian society. The role of informal workers in Manipur is so significant and important. The paper attempted to examine and analyse the gender disparity of literacy among informal workers by applying Sopher’s disparity index based on empirical data. The analysis of the paper reveals that male-female disparity of literacy in informal worker is 0.160665 with literacy rate of 71.49 % and 78.4% for informal male and female workers respectively.