Female Illiteracy in Panjgran Kalan, Gujar Khan

Abstract

The focus of the study was to define the reasons for female illiteracy in the area of Panjgran Kalan, Gujar Khan,Pakistan. Education is a basic right to humanity irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity or any other identity. But there are certain regions of the world where education is ignored. Female sare the ones who are most probably affected, increasing the female illiteracy rate. In such a scenario, the locale of PanjgranKalan was addressed. The data was collected by the use of in-depth interviews, for which an interview guide was used as atool of study. Out of the total population of 2049 with households of 355, only 36 households were addressed due tocovid-19. Results indicated that there were multiple reasons for female illiteracy in the village of Panjgran Kalan such as early marriage, traditional boundaries, poverty, long-distance from school, lack of awareness, ignorance, poor infrastructure of the school.