ore likely than males to drop out of school, and the literacy rate for women is guessed to be eighteen percent of the female population (Tikoo, pg 121). As seen above, many Indians traditionally do not want women to work. Many female children do not go far in education because of this view, as well as the custom of child marriage, leaving them with few practical skills later in life. In general, females are not encouraged to be educated, and few learn of educatio!
             n's positive benefits. Tikoo gives an example of another phenomenon, "where the son and a daughter are studying in some school or college, it is always the daughter who is asked to perform all of the culinary operations..." (Tikoo, pg 120). This is an example of how women are expected to remain in their traditional roles, even thought they are working or becoming educated. In Ka
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