Education, poverty and "purity" in the context of adolescent girls' secondary school retention and dropout: A qualitative study from Karnataka, southern India.

Education, poverty and "purity" in the context of adolescent girls' secondary school retention and dropout: A qualitative study from Karnataka, southern India.

BACKGROUND:Gender-related norms and poverty remain important structural barriers to secondary school attendance among adolescent girls in southern India. We analyse how gender norms interact with family deprivation and dynamics to result in girls dropping out of school; we identify the main facilita...

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Main Authors: Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Martine Collumbien, Ravi Prakash, Lottie Howard-Merrill, Raghavendra Thalinja, Prakash Javalkar, Srikanta Murthy, Ben Cislaghi, Tara Beattie, Shajy Isac, Stephen Moses, Lori Heise, Parinita Bhattacharjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6124724?pdf=render

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