To browse Academia. The conceptual framework is derived from literature covering Women in Development, the human capital concept of investment in education, the indirect benefits of educating women, and social theories of gender inequality. A sample of four primary schools, sixteen advanced level secondary schools and eleven higher education institutions provided empirical data. A crosssection of over Ugandan students, teachers in secondary schools and higher education institutions, political and civic leaders and parents responded to questionnaires.
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Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women.
If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family. Aggrey, cited by Smith, , p. This reflects women's low status in Ugandan society. Literature on general educational access factors, mainly focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa is reviewed, using Hyde's three-fold classification of family, societal, and institutional factors. Decision-makers at sample institutions and the Ministry of Education headquarters were interviewed, and documentary analysis also covered official reports, documents and records, previous research and the mass media.
Although focus is on the higher education level, lower levels are investigated to provide insight into causes of diminishing numbers of female students as one climbs the educational ladder. The central conclusion is that the family, society and the state in Uganda act as if they are constantly weighing the profitability of investing in boys' or girls' education, albeit not in the conventional way of measuring earnings of educated workers, but rather assessing the future functional value of the individual.
