After 70 years of independence, it's safe to assume that women in India have the basic facilities and rights made available to them. In a country where women didn’t need to fight for the right to vote, education seems only a given for all of them. But sadly, the true side of the story is quite different from the assumptions made by an ignorant mind. We are a country where literacy, and not education rates, are pitiable. And these statistics aren’t equal for men and women. There is a bigger gap between the 2 genders when it involves literacy and education rate.