participation of female students in secondary education in Madina district Mogadishu, Somalia:
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2011-05
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Kampala International University, College of Humanities and social sciences.
Abstract
The study investigated the factors influencing female participation in secondary
schools education in Medina District, in Mogadishu with the specific objectives of: (1) to
establish to what extend the school related factors have influenced female participation
in secondary education in Madina district Mogadishu Somalia (2) to examine the female
participation in secondary education in Madina district Mogadishu Somalia.(3)to establish
the relationship between the influential factors and female participation in secondary
education in Madina district Mogadishu Somalia. The study employed a cross-sectional
survey design using both quantitative and qualitative approaches on a sample of 136
respondents consisting of 130 female student and 6 none students who had experiences
in girl participation in secondary education in Madina district. Data was collected using a
standardized questionnaire of which the data collected was inputted in SPSS and
analysed using frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation and correlation as
appropriate. The study found out that social cultuaral factors such as gender
stereotyping during socialization, sexual violence experiences in the community, female
domestic labour obligations, early marriages of girls and the less interest attached to girl
education. Similarly a range of policy related factors such as lack of government funding
for secondary education, lack of compulsory free secondary education, lack of gender
affirmative action on secondary education, lack of financial incentives for girl education.
School related factors that influence female participation in secondary education
included, secondary school circular which perpetual gender stereo typing, lack of gender
sensitive school sanitation facilities, high secondary school cost and lack of female
teacher role models, sexual harassment and lack of female teacher role models. There
was low participation of females in secondary education significant in low enrollment,
early dropouts, lower grades and low participation in science relate subjects. The social
cultural, policy and school related factors had a significant relationship with female
student enrollment in Madina suggesting that improvement in the socio-cultural, policy
and school related factors would result into a higher participation of female in secondary
education Somalia. The study recommends that to achieve full participation of female
students in secondary education the government of Somalia, NGOs, civil society,
religious leaders, and other stakeholders should take affirmative action through to
address the social cultural, education policy and school related factors through
awareness building.
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a thesis Presented to the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of development administration and management.
Keywords
female students, Madina district Mogadishu, secondary education