GENDER EQUALITY AS ONE OF THE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN THE THIRD CENTURY A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN TOW SUBCULTURES IN KALYOUBIA AND NEW VALLEY GOVERNORATES

The recent study aims to identify the degree of gender equality in
education between tow subcultures in Kalyoubia and New Valley
governorates.
To accomplish the study objectives, tow samples were drown randomly
from the rural households in " El-Ahraz “ village — Shbeen EI-Kanater district
— Kalyoubia governorate and “ El—Loaa Sobih " village — El-Farafra district -
New Valley govemorate. The sample size drawn from “ El-Ahraz " village was
150 households representing 5.1% of total 2947 households in the village
according to estimations of year 2001. Also sample size drawn from ”El-Loaa
Sobih “ village was 135 households representing 28.8% of total 468
households in the village according to estimations of year 2001.
The results revealed the presence of a gender gap between the
education level of sons and daughters in both “ EI-Ahraz “and ”El-Loaa Sobih
“ villages. T-test calculated was 3.75, 2.48 respectively and it was significant
at confidence level 0.01, analysis of variance was used to determine the
sample differences between the gender gap in education of sons and
daughters. F-test calculated was 1.84 and it was insignificant at any
confidence level.
Also analysis of variance was used to recognize the differences in
gender gap concerning parents attitude towards girls education, F-test
calculated was 0.06 and it was insignificant at any confidence level.
Therefore, gender gap concerning education is one of the
characteristics of the rural Egyptian society rather than the speciatization of
culture of the samples.