Awareness of students towards gender equality in education

Abstract

Gender equality is a global concern. Gender equality entails that men and women have equal chances to enjoy their full human rights and to participate in and benefit from education, economic, social, cultural, and political development. Basically, gender equality in education means that both girls and boys, as well as women and men, should have the same opportunities to go to school, participate in learning, and get the same advantages from education. The present study intended to determine the awareness of undergraduate and postgraduate students on gender equality in education. The total sample size was 480. 240 undergraduate students and 240 postgraduate students were chosen as a sample for this present study. The sample has been selected randomly. In the present investigation, a self-made questionnaire was employed for data collection, simple percentage calculations have been done for data analysis, and the study's results were presented graphically. It was found that post-graduate respondents have Very High and High knowledge than Undergraduate respondents about gender equality in education.