GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits. It is also the process of development from infancy to maturity, the process by which an individual adapts himself gradually in various ways of his physical, social and spiritual environment. Women education is also said to be a form of education that aims at improving the knowledge, and skill of women and girls. It includes general education at schools and colleges, vocational and technical education, professional education, health education, etc. The paper viewed that women’s education has a positive direct and indirect effect on the economic growth through reducing fertility rate and infant mortality, and increasing labour participation, total factor productivity, health, and life’s conditions. This paper concludes that women’s education is a master- key to economic growth and development accompanied by a healthy and good quality of institutional capital and by eliminating all forms of gender discrimination. One of the recommendations was that Both government and policy makers should design tools to encourage female education, by providing female scholarship, female dormitory, and girls’ schools, as well as implementing (genderless) compulsory primary schooling. By doing this it will effectively promote not only female education but also sustainable economic development.