A Study on Exploring the Individual Factors that Affect the Role of Women in Higher Education

Abstract

The beginning of this article with the skeleton of the idea behind provides ways
for discussion and finds solution. Education is always considered as a tool of empowerment
of women. Total enrolment in Higher education is estimated to be more than 34.2 million
with 18.5 million boys and 15.7 million girls constitute 45.5% of total enrolment. Distance
enrolment constitutes about 11.4% of the total enrolment in higher education, of which
46% are female students. The estimate total number of teachers is approximately
14,73,255 out of which more than about 614% are male teachers and 38.6% are female
teachers these stastiscal report was the root cause for the author to analyze the role of
women in higher education. Higher Education is consider essential for any nations culture,
social and economic development, as the effective participation of women is very vital at all
levels of development. This study aims to investigate the factors that impact women in
higher education which they by enhance women learning process. To reach the
aforementioned goals, a sample containing 120 women in higher education was selected
via a cluster sampling and path analysis method was used to test thehypotheses. The
results show that there is significant model fit among the Individual factors which effects of
role of women in higher education.