Parental Attitude towards Girls’ education: In Relation to Community and Gender
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
The present study was conducted to parental attitude towards girls‟ education based on community (scheduled castes and scheduled tribes) and gender.Main objectives of the study are to compare the attitude of scheduled castes and scheduled tribesparents towards girls‟ education and to compare the attitude of scheduled castes and scheduled tribesparents towards girls‟ education belonging to different gender.There are different barriers regarding the conditions of girls‟ education, such as economic condition, gender biasness and social outlook and family condition etc. The researcher presupposes that one of the main reasons for this condition is the parental attitude. Keeping this in view this study was conducted. The sample comprised of 864 parentsof West Bengal state. 58-items questionnaire used for collecting data. The „t‟ test was used to analysis to significance of difference between scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and gender with regard to their attitude towards girls‟ education.The findings showed that scheduled castes parents are having more favorable attitude than Scheduled Tribes parents toward girls‟ education and attitude of parents belonging male and female towards girls‟ education do not differ significantly.
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Chinmoy Das And SatyajitKar
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