ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to find out the public attitude towards women
education. The study was conducted in Esan North East Local Government Area of
Edo State. The study was carried out to find out the public attitude towards
women education in the local government area and using questionnaires as a
research instrument; research questions were formulated for this study. The
data collected were analyzed using the simple percentage and it was discovered
that among people of Esan North East Local Government Area;
1. There is a relationship between societal culture
and women education, thereby affecting the education of female.
2. Some parents believe that female education is a
waste of time and money, as they will end up in the kitchen.
3. Male students perform better academically than
the female. This views that the parents sees the female as unimportant and
unequal to the male, thereby, bringing about negative attitude towards the
education of female children.
4. Some teacher create curriculum that will be of
favour to the male than the female and often times, teachers are always
disappointed when the female perform moiré than the male students especially in
science subjects.
Based on the findings of
the research, the following recommendation were made:
1. The government should encourage female students
who performed excellently well academically by giving them reinforcement such
as scholarship etc.
2. Parents should view their daughters as equal to
their sons and as such deserve equal educational opportunities with them.
3. Awareness campaigns, seminars and workshops
should frequently be organized to create awareness in rural parents so that
they will realize the need of sending their daughters to schools.
4. The importance of female education should be
intensified at all educational level from primary to university education.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter
One
1. Introduction
1. Background of the study
2. Statement of problem
3. Research questions
4. Purpose of the study
5. Significance of the study
6. Scope of the study
7. Limitation of the study
8. Definition of terms
Chapter Two
Literature Review
1. Concept of female education
2. Gender bias and women access to education
3. Balance view of female students
4. Importance of women education
Chapter Three
Research Methodology
1. Population of the study
2. Sample of the study
3. Research of the study
4. Validity and reliability of instrument
5. Method of data analysis
Chapter Four
Analysis and discussion
of results
Chapter Five
Summary
Conclusion
Recommendation
References
Questionnaire
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Esan North East Local Government Area with its administrative headquarters
located in Uromi is one of the eighteen local government area in Edo State. The
major occupation of the inhabitants if farming and this makes them view the
education of their women as irrelevant but rather, women should help their
parents for domestic work so that they can be good house wives in future.
It is also observed that parents pay little or not attention to the education
of their women in the local government areas. As a well-known fact, education
is the total process through which an individual acquires knowledge; skills and
abilities to enable him or her contribute positively towards the development of
the society. It is also an individual’s opportunity for employment, earning and
status. An access to education is one key opportunity and should be made
available not only to men but also to women. Traditionally, it was believed
that women were essentially different in character from men. This was a
convenient necessity because, it was maintained, they were here on earth for a
different purpose than a man. Women were house makers. They nourished their
families and kept them safe from the cruel world. Husbands depended on their
wives to maintain solace in their homes. In an article written for freedoms
sentinel, the characteristics of the feminine, mind were described as
tenderness and simplicity, characteristics, which made home life more amiable
to the man who had to deal with the corrupt, complex world. Men were encouraged
to trust a woman as a confident and a friend.
Women expressed disappointment if they were not able to serve their husbands as
mental, as well as physical, comparisons. “For if the character of women were
thoroughly understood, they would be found too good to be hated and yet not
good enough to be idolized”. Men could use their job to take their job to take
their mind off of trouble at home, but women’s job was at home. The importance
of domesticity incited a great debate over the issue of female education. For
the most part, it was decided that females should receive some education, but
many disagreed about the subjects to be included. Many believed a “finished”
education took away from the practical knowledge required for housewives. Men
feared than an emphasis on academics would take away from her domestic and the
home life would suffer. Many believed that the natural and performing other household
tasks. Fearing the possible upset of this order, men created a defense
mechanism to keep women from venturing from the domestic sphere.
They became openly hostile against women’s education. Hostility towards women’s
education was thwarted by convincing men that an educated wife could be
jeopardized by a wife who could not keep house. One who had been properly
trained, would not keep her husband from his business because she could not
manage an house. Women were encouraged to go to school in hopes of getting a
good husband. It was the issue of education and the natural order of the
universe which most brought out the question of feminine inferiority. Public
opinion supported the notion that virtue, innocent and submissiveness were the
positive attributes of womanhood. These virtues symbolized the order of nature,
which enlightened thinkers agreed, reflected the structure of the mind. Taught
in a tradition, which, for their sex, emphasized sentimentally women
deliberately avoided reasons. Those who argued against women’s education shared
the assumption that the feminine mind had only limited capacities. People
continued to evaluate the feminine intellect and its accomplishments by now
directly they manifested the established female virtues.
Attitudes were harshly defined, but the roles performed were based on the
practicality of performing them. For example women were forced to remain at
home because their husband were expected to go out into the world, and someone
had to manage the house and care for the children. If attitudes had allowed
women to work outside the home, their roles may have been different, but they
would still have been different, but they would still have been based on the
practicality of their actors. Recent times, women of Esan East Local Government
Area have strived to gain places in almost all professions using education as a
propagating instrument. Despite their contribution to societal attitudes,
parents have not completely changed to granting female equal educational right
as their counterparts.
Therefore, the attitudes of parents towards the education of women in Esan
North East Local Government Area of Edo State is of great concern to the
researcher and should be revised to involve women in notional development.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
As observed over the years in most secondary schools and other institutions of
learning, there is fewer number of female than male. Take for example, the 2006
enrolment of Efandion secondary school. Uromi confirmed that fact when the
total number of female students was only three hundred and fifty (350) and the
number of male students was seven hundred and thirty three (733) making up the
total of students enrolled that year, that is, one thousand and eighty three
(1083). Villages like Ivie, Efandion, Onewa etc to mention a few under this
local government cannot boast of a reasonable number of university graduates.
As a result of this, the research deems it necessary to examine the attitude of
public in the local government area towards the education of their women under
following.
1. The number of women in school and the
educational level of their parents.
2. Academic performance of male and female students
in schools.
3. Female education and parental income.
4. The relationship between societal culture and
women education.
RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
In finding out the public and parental attitudes towards women education in
Esan North East Local Government Area, the following research questions were
formulated.
1. Does male students perform better than t he
female academically?
2. Is there any relationship between women
education and parental income?
3. Is there any relationship between societal
culture and women education?
4. Is there any social factor (s) that hinders
women from completing at least their secondary education?
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This research is aimed at findings out the various attitude of the public
towards the education of women. Taking Esan North East Local Government Area of
Edo State as a case study. The researchers work will examiner the following
objectives.
1. Find out the reasons behind such behaviour
2. Enable parents cultivate a positive attitude
towards the education of their daughters.
3. Identify the negative attributes of women education
held by parents.
4. Enumerate the various beliefs of parents towards
women education.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STUDY
The research is considered important especially in Esan North East Local
Government Area of Edo State because it will help to develop positive attitude
among the general public and parents in particular towards the education of
their daughters realizing the fact that if women are educated today, it will
help t hem to contribute positively in the development of the society and inculcate
in their future generation right attitudes that will make them fit into the
present societal norms.
Again, it will also create awareness to the public on the needs to view
education of their female children as an obligation that must be fulfilled.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study is designed to find out the public attitude towards the education of
women and the reasons behind the believes. Esan North East Local Government
Area of Edo State is used as a case study, but it is not possible for this
study to cover the entire length and breadth of the region under review.
Therefore, the researcher focuses her attention on the following villages under
the local government, Ivie, Efandion, Onewa to be a point of reference because
women education is not properly developed in these regions.
DEFINITION OF
TERMS
Educated parents: Owner
of a female child with formal education in addition to informal education.
Parent: Any person (man
or women) with legal claim of ownership of a child, male or female.
Attitude: Way of
thinking, feeling, behaviour, opinion or value one has for female education.
Education: formal
instruction or training given to a child in secondary schools female or male.
Income: Available
resources of parents earned on sales of articles or received on performance of
a certain services
Social factors: All
social influences that aid or hinder a parent’s attitude to education of their
female children.
Department | Education |
Project ID Code | EDU0174 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 50 pages |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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