A Fair Chance for Education: Gendered Pathways to Educational Success in Haryana is a five-year action research project that seeks to determine the gendered factors that contribute to educational success for young people in Haryana, India.

Haryana experiences significant gender-based practices that affect the ability of young people to access and remain within the education system, and to progress into higher education. The project therefore focusses on gendered social relations and gender differences in choices, obstacles and opportunities for young people as they progress through the education system, and ultimately intends to devise a programme of actions that can bring about positive social change.

The project designLink opens in a new window has been developed in collaboration with a core group of Indian partners and The Fair Chance Foundation. In addition, the project incorporates two fully-funded doctoratesLink opens in a new window, contributing to capacity building in Indian higher education.