Comparative Analysis of Gender Equality in Enrolment and Completion of Primary School Girls in Ilorin West and Ilorin South
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2022-01-20
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Centre for Continuing Education (CCE), Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt
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This study was conducted to investigate gender equality in enrolment and completion of primary school girls. The report in the study constitutes a comprehensive survey on the reason primary school enrolment rate for girls lag behind those of boys. The study also feature the post Millennium Development Goal Agenda, setting out recommendations for the education sector at the international, national and local level with the aim of transforming the experiences of girls at school. This empirical study contains some basic statistics on the level of girl's exclusion from education in llorin West and llorin South. It presents statistical information on gender equality. It also presented the multi-faceted strategies necessary to address not only different dimensions of girls and women lives but understand gendered relationships and structurally entrenched inequalities between women and men, girls and boys. Also it analysed the way schools can perpetrate gender stereotypes and investigated how this can be prevented. A descriptive survey design was employed. A-9 four point Likert scale researchers questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument consists of (9) items administered to 360 respondents. Out of the 360 questionnaires administered, 357 questionnaires were returned. Data collected were analysed using mean ratings while each case study ended with conclusion and a set of policy recommendations, Therefore, it was recommended that post-MDG goals are not sufficient for what need to be done to address girls' and women education needs, setting the target population too low and still, only in terms of access not attendance, completion and equality. Thus, the paper discussed some of the key challenges in achieving real gender equality in education providing examples of initiatives in a range of context, including gender-responsive budgeting in primary education. It was concluded that gender inequality exist among nations as regards girl-child right. It was recommended that the government should ensure that girl-child education is given utmost priority as the education policies should be well regulated to promote gender equality.