Girls discriminated in education

Thimphu, September 29: A new study of the National Statistics Bureau (NSB) mentions the prevailing dissemination against women in university level education.

Less than 33 percent of students in educational institutes under Royal Bhutan University (RUB) are girls while only 18 percent girls get scholarships to study abroad. In contrast, most girls study outside the country on their own – accounting to 58 percent total students studying abroad.

The report says Bhutan has a literacy rate of 55.5 percent, combined, with male 65.7 percent and female 45.9 percent, in 2007. Bhutan News Service