PARENTS' DIFFERENTIAL ATTIDUTES TOWARDS THEIR DAUGHTERS' AND SONS' EDUCATION IN RURAL FAISALABAD: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
             The present study was conducted to investigate parents' differential attitudes toward their daughters' education. Faisalabad tehsil was selected at random and five Union Councils from selected tehsil were selected randomly. Of each Union Council, three villages were selected at random. Five males (fathers) and five females (mothers) totaling to 10 respondents were randomly selected and interviewed from selected villages. Thus making a total number of 150 respondents were interviewed. The data were analyzed and interpreted for drawing conclusions. The study findings show that parents' have preferential attitudes for their sons' education as compared with their daughters. The major reasons include family traditions, family problems, social need, better future and good manners.
             Key words: Differential attitude, Daughters, Education, Parents, Faisalabad,
             Every society is furnished of different social groups and values. In the world of today to understand the society education plays a very important role. Education also plays an important role in the personality formulation of human beings. Education is one of the major instruments of social change and it is the force, which brings changes in the traditional out look of the people, and it develops insight for judging things in their context. It is visualized that more the percentage of educated people more will be the rate of development (Hussain et al. 2003). It creates an environment of bringing about a change in an individual. A clear vision and a precise concept of matters not only solve complex individual problems, but also affect the society as a whole. Education has a positive impact on individual earnings and also yields substantial externalities. Parents' education and mothers' literacy and education a...