03 Impact of Women Education on Their Family Position and Reproductive Decisions

Abstract

This study was aimed to investigate the impact of women education on their family position and reproductive decisions. It was also planned to find out the effect of women’s age and family size on their family position and reproductive decisions. For this purpose, women’s family position and reproductive decision scale was designed in first phase of the study while second phase dealt with testing of hypotheses and fulfilling the objectives. By using the purposive sampling method, 50 women who were below primary in education and 50 women who were above Matric in education were involved in the study from Rawalpindi. The results showed that there was no impact of women education on their family position and reproductive decisions. The in depth response analysis revealed that there were certain issues like decision-making, mobility, and contraceptive use in which education has some impact.