Gender Bias and Caste Exclusion in Engineering Admission: Inferences from the Engineering Entrance Examination in Kerala

Autor/in	Rajasenan, D.
Titel	Gender Bias and Caste Exclusion in Engineering Admission: Inferences from the Engineering Entrance Examination in Kerala
Quelle	In: Higher Education for the Future, 1 (2014) 1, S.11-28 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2347-6311
DOI	10.1177/2347631113518275
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Gender Bias; Engineering Education; Equal Education; College Entrance Examinations; Social Stratification; Social Status; Religious Factors; College Students; Statistical Analysis; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Geschlechterstereotyp; Ingenieurausbildung; Aufnahmeprüfung; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Sozialer Status; Collegestudent; Statistische Analyse; Indien
Abstract	The major problem of the engineering entrance examination is the exclusion of certain sections of the society in social, economic, regional and gender dimensions. This has seldom been taken for analysis towards policy correction. To lessen this problem a minor policy shift was prepared in the year 2011 with a 50-50 proportion in academic marks and entrance marks. The impact of this change is yet to be scrutinized. The data for the study is obtained from the Nodal Centre of Kerala functioning at Cochin University of Science and Technology under the National Technical Manpower Information System and also estimated from the Centralized Allotment Process. The article focuses on two aspects of exclusion based on engineering entrance examination; gender centred as well as caste-linked. Rank order spectral density and Lorenz ratio are used to cognize the exclusion and inequality in community and gender levels in various performance scales. The article unfolds the fact that social status in society coupled with economic affordability to quality education seems to have significant influence in the performance of students in the Kerala engineering entrance examinations. But it also shows that there is wide gender disparity with respect to performance in the high ranking levels irrespective of social groups. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01