Bihar Girl Wanted To Study Science, Forced To Pursue Arts; She Breaks Down On Camera Over Gender Bias
A heart-wrenching story of a girl has come to the fore, exposing the prevalent gender bias in Indian societies even in 2025. Khushboo narrated on camera how she faced gender bias in her family.
A heartbreaking story came to the fore in Bihar’s Patna that exposed the injustice and absence of a level playing field for daughters as against sons in the society.
Khushboo, an intermediate student pursuing Arts instead of Science which she intended to go ahead with after her matriculation, hailed from Danapur and was sent by her parents to Patna to take up further education in Humanities.
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She wanted to proceed in her career by opting for Science as her field of studies, however, failing to meet the conditions set by her parents to do so by just 1 mark crushed her dreams to dust.
Dear politicians of India, here is an opportunity for you. Find this girl. Talk to her family. Help her study what she wants. Make a statement. This discrimination against daughters should not be happening in 2025! The public will appreciate. It can at least change a few lives. pic.twitter.com/OxJIXW6tCr— Aravind (@aravind) March 13, 2025
Girl Narrates Heartbreaking Ordeal Of Gender Bias
Speaking to News18 Bihar Jharkhand on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8, she poured her heart out about the gender-based injustice meted out to daughters and the opportunities they are deprived of on the basis of their gender.
While her brothers were given the freedom to pick their choice of subjects, things were made different for Khushboo.
Her parents asked her to score 400 out of 500 in her matriculation in order to pursue Science in intermediate, or else be contented with Arts. She was not even given a phone to study, she said.
“At my home, there is still a difference between me and my brothers. My brothers have the freedom to pursue studies, but the sisters do not. We are not even given phones to study. When I was in Matric, my mother told me that if I secured 400+ marks, I could pursue Science, otherwise, I could not. I could not score 400 marks; I got 399, which is why I am pursuing Arts today," the student said, as she sobbed with teary eyes, further breaking into tears.
Netizens Voice Support
Her comments went viral on social media, where the netizens sympathised with her and brought up the lack of opportunities daughters face even in 2025.
As the matter was raised with the Bihar government and officials, they assured whatever will be possible within the ambit of law to help her pursue Science will be done.
“Dear politicians of India, here is an opportunity for you. Find this girl. Talk to her family. Help her study what she wants. Make a statement. This discrimination against daughters should not be happening in 2025! The public will appreciate. It can at least change a few lives," a user said.
“There are many many such cases prevalent in our society , we need to see everyone as human first and then see Boys or Girl . Human consciousness needs to be awakened," another one said.
“This video is hard hitting and I feel pity about Indian society, some parts of India especially northern states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, chattisgarh, interior maharastra and West Bengal they don’t encourage girl child’s to study and become an independent lady in this f****** society," another user wrote.
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