Farm women attitude towards girls education

The present study was undertaken in villages of Akola and Akot Panchayat Samities of Akola district in Maharashtra state by interviewing 120 farm women from 10 villages. The Ex-post facto research design of social research was used for the study. Findings of study revealed that majority of the educated girls of farm women are more helpful to their parents than the uneducated girls, agree with educated girls will turn in to ideal housewives, accepting the idea that education will help the girls to solve their day-to-day problems, education of girls improved generation to come, education makes the girls selfsufficient, denied that education of girl is wastage of money, and there is no necessity of girl's education as they have to ultimately serve their spouses. The majority of respondents (84.17%) had overall favourable attitude towards girls education. The variables like age, education, land holding, annual income, caste, occupation, social participation, mass media exposure shows significant relationship with attitude towards girls education.