Some argue that women are
withdrawing from the workforce to pursue higher education(Kingdon and Unni, 2001),
while others contend that there is a lack of good jobs for women(Chatterjee et a., 2015).
According to an analysis of raw data of the District Information System on Education(DISE)
by Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, despite the number of government schools increasing by 13,498 between 2010 and 2014,
student enrollment in government schools has gone down by 1.13 crore while enrollment in private schools has gone up by 1.85 crore.