Factors affecting the standard of female education: a case study of senior secondary schools in the Kassena-Nankana district

dc.contributor.author	Adetunde, I.A.
dc.contributor.author	Akampae Akensin, Peter
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-01T15:46:49Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-01T15:46:49Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.issn	1549-3652
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5411
dc.description	pg 338 - 342	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This study presents the current factors affecting the standard of female education in the Kassena-Nankana district in Upper East Region of Ghana. Poverty, long-held negative attitudes about women’s intellectual capabilities, teenage pregnancy, early marriage, examination failure in mathematics and science and the traditional division of household labour are among the many factors that continue to keep vast numbers of girls out of the classroom in the district and country as well	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Journal of Social Sciences	en_US
dc.subject	Standard of female education	en_US
dc.subject	factors	en_US
dc.subject	senior secondary school	en_US
dc.subject	incentives	en_US
dc.subject	incentives	en_US
dc.title	Factors affecting the standard of female education: a case study of senior secondary schools in the Kassena-Nankana district	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US