*Msc (Hons) Scholar and Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, KP Agri. University, Peshawar
**Lecturer, Frontier Women University, Peshawar
***Lecturers, Department of Sociology, Kohat University of Science and Technology
Online published on 21 November, 2013.
The present study was conducted with the main objectives to assess the relationship between the parents attitude on psycho-social barriers to women education. Data was collected form randomly selected 90 respondents to draw inferences. Chi-square test was used to determine the relationship between independent variable i.e. educational facilities and dependent variable i.e. parents level of education. The study revealed that majority of the respondents i.e. (55%) rated the school conditions as “well”, followed by school school building proper (50%). Moreover, bus facilities (59%) and personal pick and drop (38%) by their respective parents. In addition, a significant association (p<0.05) was discovered between schooling conditions of females and parents level of education. The study disclosed that despite rural in nature; the prevalent social structure was getting flexible by allowing the female students for using all the possible modes of reaching into their relative schools. A transitional path, based on parent's attitude towards female education could easily be inferred from the study. Efforts are needed for replicating the study model to other rural parts of KPK for devising a standard policy on the subject at hand.
Female education, Psycho-social barriers, Parent's attitude, and Educational facilities
