The Impact of Women Education on Economic Development in Ethiopia

Abstract

For development of any country the role of women education is the crucial one, especially for third world countries like Ethiopia. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of women education on economic development in Ethiopia. To conduct this study the data was collected from secondary sources. These secondary data includes different records on women education from different books and some published materials.  On the collected data, descriptive analysis such as percentage, tables and ratios were carried out to come up with major findings. In the analysis part different variables to measure enrollment rate at different levels of education like: Gross Enrolment Rate (GER), Net Enrollment rate (NER), Apparent Intake rate (AIR) and Gross party index (GPI) were used. Based on the results the study reached into conclusion that educating women has a positive impact on economic development even if girls were always been in a disadvantageous position in terms of access to and success in education. Therefore, the researcher recommended enhancing women’s education that promotes women’s participation is developing economic policies and providing social and economic safety and security of women’s. 

Key words: Gross Enrolment Rate, Net Enrollment rate, Apparent Intake rate and Gross party index