In South Asia, and particularly in Uttar Pradesh, the Indian state in which WLC is focused, literacy rates are extremely low. In UP, according to census 2001 survey, the literacy rate for males was 68.8% and among adult women, the literacy rate was only 42.98%. In India the overall literacy rate is 64.8 % (Male: 75.3%; Female: 53.7%). Historically, a variety of factors have been found to be responsible for poor female literacy rates: gender based inequality, social discrimination and economic