GENDER EQUITY IN EDUCATION ETHIOPIA: HURDLES, INITIATIVES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

the gender-related consequences of being an African female manfist themselves in several ways: socially, economically, culturally and most relevantly
educationally. For instance, Ethiopian females are less likely to go to school, to persist
and to perform than boys in almost all settings and at all levels. Despite the fact that
. several Ethiopian studies have been conducted in connection to this issue, intervention
based on the results of the studies has had no significant alleviative returns. Policy
initiatives based on these studies do not seem to have led to significant changes. This
inevitably calls for a supplementary study which takes care of the drawbacks of the
former studies on which this study capitalizes. The present study uses logistic regression
methods to investigate correlates of female school enrollment in rural pnd urban
Ethiopia. The results of the study advocate the teaching of girls because the problems
are exacerbated in girls with uneducated or under-educated mothers.