Socio-economic Justifications for Renewed Calls for Girl-child Education in South-South Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the extent social and economic advantages justify the renewed
calls for girl-child education in South-South Nigeria. Two research questions and
two hypotheses guided the study, whose design was descriptive, the populations as
the 12 Ministries of Education and Women Affairs in the Zone and the sample as
141 Ministerial Directors, selected using the census and stratified random sampling
techniques. The study instrument was the validated researcher’s designed Socio-
Economic Justifications for Girl-Child Scale, with a reliability index of 0.89. Mean
and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions and t-test
for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 probability level. The results show that social and
economic advantages justify the renewed calls for girl-child education to a high
extent. It also established significant differences between the responses of the
Ministerial Directors on the extent to which socio-economic advantages justify the
calls for girl-child education. The study submitted that, renewed calls for girl-child
education are results from some identified social and economic advantages.

Consequently, the study recommends that, stakeholders should probe to identify
more rationalizations to buttress the renewed calls for the education of the female
folk in society.