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The single biggest shift in Indian women's lifestyle has been education. Literacy rates for women have jumped from 8.6% (1951) to over 70% (2024). Educated mothers are breaking the cycle of child marriage and malnutrition. Furthermore, the Right to Education Act has ensured that girls in rural Bihar or Uttar Pradesh are now cycling to school in helmets, carrying backpacks filled with STEM textbooks.