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Women's Empowerment and Child's Education in Egypt 2000

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الإحصاء الحيوي
الديموغرافيا
النماذج الخطية

Abstract

Most poor women in developing countries have never been allowed to think for themselves or to make any decision unless the husband has been absent; because the majority of them grow up believing that it is natural position, during the last decade Egypt adopted several targets aiming at discussing school's enrolment and reducing the gender gap in basic education through many ways; by reducing the direct and indirect costs of schooling and ensuring girls access to schools. Also a great deal of attention has been given to women's status – especially in the Arab world – as a significant factor in demographic behavior. This study investigates the relationship between women's empowerment and child's education in Egypt. The data derived from Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS, 2000). The study depends on two methodologies, which are descriptive analysis and the logistic regression model. This study concludes that the percentage of schools enrolment increased to 88.7% in 2000, 14% of those who ever attended school repeated a grade and 5% of those enrolled dropped out o school, also it concludes that high proportions of school attendance were observed for male students, for highly educated parents, for those living in urban areas and those with high level of decision-making; the low proportions of school attendance existed for females attending public schools, in rural areas, less educated parents and less empowered women. Logistic results shows that woman's work is negatively related to Schools enrolment, while number of decisions, child's sex and regions are positively related to school's enrolment, it also shows that determinants of grade repetition are: child's sex, place of residence, woman's work, birth order (positively related) and woman's/husband's education (negatively related). The study recommends eradicating women's illiteracy, raising the level of education for both women and their husbands, child's education programs should not be limited in rural areas.

DOI

10.21608/mskas.2006.301958

Keywords

School Enrolment, Child’s Education, Women’s empowerment, Logistic regression, Woman’s Work, birth order

Authors

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Maha

Last Name

Kamal

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Institute of Statistical Studies and Research - Cairo University

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Volume

39

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1

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40278

Issue Date

2006-06-01

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2023-06-04

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2006-06-01

Page Start

21

Page End

51

Print ISSN

1110-1156

Online ISSN

2786-0078

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1,913

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Journal

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المجلة المصرية للسکان وتنظيم الأسرة

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https://mskas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Women's Empowerment and Child's Education in Egypt 2000

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28 Dec 2024