Abstract
Women empowerment through education process is the key element for the national development by providing basic resources & facilities. Every country has taken systemic initiatives for the development of girls’ education at all levels, to empower women, Pakistan has also started number of motivational steps for girls’ education especially in Sindh. Consequently government of Sindh has taken numerous initiatives to promote girls’ education, in this connection girls’ stipend program started was from 2001 for girls’ students studying from VI to X level in public schools of Sindh. Keeping in view, the primary purpose of this study was to know the effectiveness of girls’ stipend program in public schools of Sindh on the enrollment , attendance of girls , encouragement of parents’ motivational & interest level of parents’ towards continuity of education process as per the perception of head teachers . Current study was descriptive in nature and quantitative by method. Population of this study was all head teachers of elementary, middle and secondary schools of Sindh. Targeted population of this study was all head teachers of elementary, middle and secondary schools of district Shaheed Benazir Abad. Seventy percent head teachers of elementary, middle and secondary schools was selected by convenient random sampling from the targeted population of the study. Questionnaire with five points Likert scale was developed for exploring the perception of head teachers’ about effectiveness of girls’ stipend program. Data was analyzed by the help of percentage. Findings of this study identified that girls’ stipend program proved as motivational factor for the enrolment, attendance, continuity and encouragement of parents and for girls who were studying in 6th to10th classes in public schools.
Highlights
The population of Pakistan consists of 52% on female gender
The results suggest that a huge majority of the respondents agreed that the stipend program benefited in enhancement in girls interest level, served as a motivational factor and increase in admission on yearly basis
The results suggest that the majority of the respondents agreed that the stipend program benefited in increase in enrolment, quality education and as an encouragement for the parents of the girls’ students of public schools
Summary
The population of Pakistan consists of 52% on female gender. It is very important to educate female to make nation stable, developed and successful country in the world. In all developing countries, secondary school enrolment lowers for female than male, especially in remote areas (Shahdur, 2003) Main center of literacy programmers in Pakistan was on the girls’ population. A number of improvement programs and project have been launched since 2000 for the encouragement of girls’ primary education and female literacy. These projects and program were starting to show optimistic consequences,(GoVand MoE, 2008). Girls’ education remained big challenge, and so many initiatives were being taken by provinces such as free text book, free and quality education for remote areas by the collaboration of Sindh education foundation, and girls’ stipend program in all public school of Sindh
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