Socio-Economic Impact of Female Education in Balochistan Paksitan

Abstract

A study was carried out to analyze the socio-economic force of education (especially female) in Baluchistan during March to June 2011 A total of three hundred house hold (10 households from villages in each district) randomly selected from three districts Kalat, Mastung and Sibi of Balochistan province. A well planned questionnaire was developed to collect the information on such as literacy rate, inter and intra-household responsibilities, and socio-economic condition of significant relationship between income and education among three districts. Future noted that educated/skilled (male and female) responded were earned higher income from job as compared to illiterate/unskilled and majority (81.4%) of the respondents were well aware of the importance of education. Significantly higher number of families lived in joint family system 158(52.7%) as compared to single system 142(47.3%) and result showed significant association in difficulties faced by female getting education. It is noted that discrimination was perceived in gender and need to be addressed for development of the province and country. Female education is critical for the economic growth of the family and society. For this purpose better educational facilities should be provided for women. Gender disparity has yet been the most significant problem contributing poor female literacy in rural areas of Baluchistan is comparison to that of urban areas.