Access to Education and Dropout among Married Women of Kirtipur Municipality

Abstract

Education is the systematic instruction to gain knowledge. Education is one of the fundamental means for all for alleviating poverty and bringing improvement in the standard of living through different socio economic activities. Literacy enhances access to information that may be necessary to conduct various essential activities to daily life and work. This study aims on investigating the educational status of married women and drop out among the respondents, causes of illiteracy and trends of dropout of respondents.in Kirtipur Municipality. The study has used the quantitative research with emphasis on exploratory and descriptive research design following the stratified sampling technique from nine different wards of the municipality. The study concludes that the educational access of married women in the study area is good.