Problem Formulation Objective of the Study

other side of some of Palestinian women who can get the chance to become an independent, determined, and outspoken women, through the education levels they experienced in. On the article titled Women and Education in Palestine: Is Education Improving the Status of Women?, RASIT Royal Academy of Science International Trust discussed about how women should be educated in the right way. I nternationally, women’s education is seen as a development necessity and as a human right. Similarly, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 2000 have included goals for improving education, gender equality and women’s empowerment, while emphasi zing that women and girl’s education is essential in building democratic societies and creating a platform for sustained economic growth. More importantly, education should serve as a means to improve women’s status within their families and societies. These statements clearly emphasized that education must be given to especially women, because women also have rights to get education as equal as men so that, they can support their economic life within families and societies. The Palestinian people have viewed the education of future generation as a form of protest in responding to the region’s on-going conflict, displacement, and upheaval and, appropriately, the education of women has thrived in recent years. This commitment to education has resulted a combined male and female gross enrolment ratio of 82,4 for primary, secondary, and tertiary education UNDP, 2008. At the primary level, females have lower repetition and dropout rates; at the secondary level females routinely outnumber their male counterparts, as well as outrank them in academic achievement and Tawjihi scoring; and at the tertiary level females also outnumber males, and pursue and excel in a variety of academic fields. Thus, there should be no question that Palestine contains a motivated and educated pool of women who well-prepared contributing to society. In relation to the researcher’s studies, which tried to develop the studies above, the daughters, who represented as new generation Palestinian women, has shown about the impact of education in their life. In the daughters’ era, which differ from the mothers’ era, they showed about their thoughts and views, they had good jobs, and one of them participated in the political organizations. These facts are based on the education aspects that influence their life as Palestinian women. Historically, Palestinian women had looked for the equality of human rights as equal as the men in their life, especially in the aspect of education until nowadays. Palestinian women have understood that their presence must be equal with men. They are now educated, participated in the political organizations and had opportunity to enter the work field. Recent studies of the Condition of Palestine women in 2007, report that the completion of education is expected to impinge on 170 thousand students in 320 schools, half of whom are females. In this context, the Amnesty International mentioned in a report two reasons which make the above situation harder on females than male students. The first reason is the economic deterioration and increase in poverty rate forcing families who cannot afford providing college education to their children to prioritize their sons since these are expected to be able to support a family when they marry. The second reason is that some families, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI