The Assessment and Enhancement of Gender Equality Awareness among the Upper Primary School Students: An Analysis

Abstract

The need of gender equality in schools is recognized by all but there are little practical 
efforts at ground level. The objective of such efforts is to make students aware, acquire 
knowledge, develop attitude, skills and abilities and to make them able to overcome real life 
gender equality problems. In the backdrop of this, present research was carried out as the 
children are the foundation of our society and it is necessary to develop awareness of gender 
equality amongst upper primary school students. In order to carry out research work the two 
government upper primary schools of Amritsar district from rural and, urban area were selected 
as sample. Whole procedure was divided into 6 phases for smooth completion of the project. A 
questionnaire was developed to check gender equality awareness level of students. This 
questionnaire was given to sample students at start of and at end of this research. The results 
were compared taking percentage of marks obtained by the sample in test. On reviewing the 
results the P-value was found statistically significant. The two tailed P-value was less than 
0.0001.By conventional criteria this difference was considered extremely significant. The daily 
improvements in the behaviour of students regarding gender equality issues were observed. It 
was found that at the initial phase of research students were having a little knowledge about 
gender equality as at the final phase of research.