Female Education And Its Consequences: A Parental Openion (A Case Study Of District Killa Abdullah, Balochistan)

Abstract

This research study aimed to explore the parental perception regarding female education in District Killa Abdullah. The study focused mainly on socio-economic factors that hindered females’ education, household chores that kept females uneducated, traditional norms and values that bounded women to be inside boundary walls throughout their life spans, and feudalist parental perception that cursed on educated females and considered them as out of social norms and values women. To carry out this research, primary data collected through random sampling technique at household level and 160 households were interviewed, Data analysis techniques such as simple numerical analysis were applied that produced extraordinary results for interpretation. Findings of this research revealed that females are extremely marginalized compare to their male counterparts. Female face multi challenges such as, lack of feasible transportation to move to education institutes, getting early marriages that result into mal-nutrition and dropping out of the schools and many more. Recommendations were made to encourage girl’s education and to disseminate information regarding significance of girl’s education to remote rural areas too so that women shall have equal opportunities to get education and play their vital role in development of the country. Government needs to take some immediate serious steps to eradicate these traditional and feudalist norms and values.