Abstract
This paper summarises some statistical findings of my doctoral study
that explored factors affecting women’s low participation in higher
education in the province of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The
article is based on the author’s quantitative data analysis of Initial and
Audit Surveys of the original doctoral dissertation (2014) that
triangulated Pukhtun women’s education under Pukhtunwali
[unwritten social principles or beliefs of the Pukhtuns]. The sample
women were final year BA/BSc. college students, randomly selected
from Peshawar District. The study found a strong co-relation between
economic class, parental education and profession that affected
women’s preference to family life over higher education and career. A
dominant factor coming across was women’s patriarchal social milieu
of having more boys’ as offspring to ensure a secure marital life. The
study recommended further research of the issue, by adding rural and
urban men’s sampling, for future educational strategies to promote
increased gender participation in higher education in Pukhtunkhwa
Shabana Shamaas Gul Khattak. (2020) Women’s Higher Education Under Pukhtunwali, Pakistan , Volume-57, Issue-1.
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