An Analysis of Parents Perception Towards Female Education: A Case Study of District Bandipora in North Kashmir

Education is the basic fundamental right of each individual. Today when we accept that the mother is the first teacher of the child, it becomes necessary for us that we should also accept the importance of female education. The education of women is as much necessary like men for all round development, progress and prosperity of the country. The purpose of the present study was to identify the perception of parents towards female education in North Kashmir District Bandipora of Jammu and Kashmir State India. The Bandipora district is still behind in general female literacy rate as (37.35% as per census 2011), which is extremely low as compared to other districts of Kashmir valley. High level of discrimination has been found between the male and female literacy level in major parts of Bandipora District. The parents give a least preference to education of their daughters then sons, due to religious and social attitude, poverty, backwardness, illiteracy and ignorance of parents. The girls are actively engaged in agricultural fields, domestic chores and were forced for early marriage. Moreover the socio-economic problems like poverty, economic backwardness, prejudices, social inequality, poor malnutrition, gender inequality, religious orthodox etc. creates a main hindrance to education of their daughters. The present study was conducted through descriptive survey method. For this study 180 respondents from nine blocks were selected by simple random sampling techniques. The study findings that occupation, education, income and perception of parents have a significant impact upon the female education.