CONTEXTUALIZATION OF WOMEN'S RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN TRIBAL PERSPECTIVE: STUDY OF MASID TRIBE

The right to education flows directly from the right to life and is related to the dignity of the individual. This paper attempts to study the contextualization of Women's right to education and also analyzes the impediments in the enforcement of these rights. Standardized self constructed questionnaire was used and 50 Masid tribal women were being interviewed, belonging to South Waziristan, FATA. Convenient sampling techniques were employed for data collection. The overall analysis shows that an average Masid tribal family is supportive of female education and encourages their daughters for further education. They allow their daughters to choose their field of study without any pressure but they preferred to be involved in decision making; implying that women can't make academic decisions independently. Results further shows that there are some barriers in the way endorsement of right to education. Foremost among those is financial constraint, whereas mobility and discrimination were also considered to be contributing factors.