The aim of this article is to describe the Women in Higher Education Issues and Challenges. Education is considered as a potential instrument of individual development as well as social advancement. It is closely associated with the utility of manpower and quality of life. It makes the people understand their rights and status on the one side and their duties and their responsibilities on the other side. Those who have remained backward and underprivileged over the years can be empowered by education to assert their rights and to fulfill their places in the society. Education is found to be a powerful instrument for removing disparities, disabilities and discrimination in the society. A society can be brought forward only by the education. This powerful weapon occupies a vital role in all aspects of the development of an individual or a society. The investment in education resulted in many scientific inventions and development. In the last few centuries almost all the countries in the world have invariably invested in the education of its youth. The development of women education in higher education becomes important only in the past few decades. However the women enrollment in higher education is comparatively poor in rural and urban colleges. This study mainly focuses on the issues and challenges behind the enrollment.

Women Institutions, Academic Issues, Reservation for Women