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The current study was carried out in district Upper Dir, Malakand division, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, with sole objective to ascertain ‘Traditional thinking and attitude of parents towards female education’. The study unit includes parents in the study area. A sample size of 204 was chosen for interview. Uni-variate and bi-variate analyses were drawn through percentage based presentations cross tabulation respectively. Chi-square was used to determine the level of association between independent variable and dependent variable. The findings reveal that 98% of the respondents favored the opinion that education improves the behavior of an individual and again 98% respondents replied that education acts as a bridge between family and society. Education prepares children for adult role is approved by 99% of the respondents, education enables an individual to get high status and female plays an important role in the socialization of children is reported by 98% and 99% respondents respectively. The results showed that in traditional thinking 32.8 percent disagreed with statement that female should stay at home. Another 64.2 percent disagreed over the opinion that who will manage the domestic activities when female would go to the school. Similarly 59.4 percent, 41.1 percent, 36.2 percent did not find concerned that when we give education to female other people will blame us, female education is against family norms and family leaders will oppose as respectively. A 76.7 percent agreed that their education had helped them in the formation of positive attitude towards female education. The results further explored that the value of traditional thinking in forming attitude towards female education exposed significant association with people will blame us(0.002) and education helped mechange my attitude towards female education (p=0.000)It is recommended that the development of overall education should bring the positive change in the attitude of the people

Ubaid ur Rehman, Bushra Shafi. (2015) Traditional Thinking and Attitude of Parents towards Female Education, The Dialogue, Volume 10, Issue 1.
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