Critical Analysis of Low Female Literacy Rate in District Killa Saifullah
Keywords:
Low female literacy, poverty, gender disparity, early marriages, population, culture.Abstract
Low female education has always remained a challenge in Pakistan
especially in the rural and tribal areas of Balochistan. To examine this
problem the researcher has conducted a case study on low female
literacy rate in district Killa Saifullah, Balochistan. It is believed that
poverty, religion, gender biasness and unawareness are major
obstacles in the way of female education. The researcher has applied
feminist theories for better understanding of the empirical findings.
The human development theory is the main viewpoint which relates
social transformation to emancipative values through changes in
existential limits. This study is qualitative and quantitative in nature
and relies on both secondary and primary data. The data has been
collected through field observation and survey in a natural setting. In
district Killa Saifullah the educational policy is also problematic.
Malik keeps the villagers backward in order to decide their fate. The
other big issues are the poverty and gender disparity. Each child of 12
or 18 of age engaged to earn money or lively hood for the family. The
fathers give priority of child labor as compared to education it is also
a bad luck for the poor families because of too much expansive
education.
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