EDUCATED AND UNEDUCATED PARENTS’ MIND SET TOWARDS GIRLS’ EDUCATION: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

Education is a fundamental human right without gender discrimination to uplift the economic, social, and culture of society through education. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the comparison of educated & uneducated parents’ mindsets regarding female education at secondary school level. The essentialness of this investigation was to view the mindset of parents comparatively toward girls’ education. The population of study was parents of secondary school-level students of Dera Ghazi Khan. The research design was causal-comparative based on a survey. The sample of the study was 96 parents who were selected through the random sampling techniques. The questionnaire was developed at a five-point Likert type of scale to collect the data from the selected parents. The study results showed that educated parents preferred the girls’ education more than uneducated parents, urban parents than rural parents, and mothers than fathers. Thus, it is recommended that the female should avail educational opportunities for their educational development. The government must offer financial help to those parents who are unable to educate their daughters due to financial constraints.