ERIC Number: EJ1075911
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Publication Date: 2015
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Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
Purewal, Navtej; Hashmi, Naimatullah
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v36 n7 p977-995 2015
This article focuses upon perceptions of girls' education in the family context within which decisions around children's education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls' education are shaped by an objective logic framed by the notion of returns, relating to potential benefits of daughters' education, and respectability, relating to girls' modesty and threats that education may present to normative expectations for girls. Drawing upon data collected in 2011 in rural areas of the districts of Faisalabad (Jaranwala town) and Chiniot (Tehsil Chiniot) in the province of Punjab, the study highlights how assumptions around the liberating effects of education implicit in global education programmes fail to take into account cultural values around gender norms that are central to informing parental attitudes towards their daughters' prospects for education.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Cultural Influences, Parent Attitudes, Outcomes of Education, Social Influences, Rural Areas, Gender Bias, Surveys, Semi Structured Interviews, Questionnaires, Attitude Measures, Negative Attitudes, Educational Attainment, Likert Scales, Fathers, Mothers, Qualitative Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
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