In 2001, the literacy rate of India was 65.38% which drastically increased from 1951(18.33%), where male literacy was 75.85% and female literacy rate was 54.16%. This shows 21.69% difference in literacy rates between the two genders. In 2011, the literacy rate raised to 74.04%, where males were 82.14% literate and female literacy rate was 65.46% and the difference was only 16.68%. There was significant increase in the literacy rates along the decades, but it can be observed that the rate of literate females were always less than that of males, but the difference between the literacy rates of both genders decreased from 2001 to 2011, and hopefully in the coming decades India will achieve equality of education for both the genders.