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The recent studies revealed the strong relationship between the number of female teachers in the elementary schools and the rate of enrollment and dropouts of girls form their schools at rural areas.
In the sense that whenever there are available female teachers at those schools, the girls’ numbers was increasing and vice versa, according to the latest official statistics.
The researcher addresses and analyzes the increasingly core problem of the drop-out rates of girls especially in rural areas.
One of the major problems of education in Yemen is the problem of educating rural girls in the first place. Girls out there are still not able to take their educational opportunities in spite of the logic and legal laws supporting female education. So, this study represents a fundamental challenge in various aspects of development in Yemen.
The researcher adopted two approaches in the study- he follows the systems analysis’ approach and the statistical approach. Through those two methods, he poses a number of questions on the reality of the education of girls in elementary schools in Yemen.
The studies reveal the huge amount of the gender gap ratio of male teachers to female’s , which affects the enrollment rates of girls and high drop-outs.The study also discussed the question of how many female teacher required to fill this gap in all districts in Yemen, and also the question of intended and desired policy and to reduce such a problem?
According to statistics from 2007-2008, elementary school girls aging between 6-14 reached 65% of the total population compared with 84% for boys, which shows a huge gender gab in Yemeni society.
The statistics also shows that 35% of Yemen girls still can’t enjoy the experience of education compared with 16% for boys, which excludes women from participating in the development process.
Moreover, the study concluded that the low rate of girl enrollment and the high dropout rate are due to the absence of female teachers
Yemen need 50,305 female teachers to teach 2707642 girls at rural areas all over the Yemen. So, 17614 female teachers should be added to the current number of 39694 female teachers.
The budget needed to hire 17614 female teacher in order to cover the shortfall in the light of the enrollment rate of girls are estimated to be YR 9,511,560,000 and the annual budget estimate for employing 29,931 female teacher in order to raise the enrollment rate to (90%) with the end of 2015 is 16,162,740,000 YR, according to the Ministry of Civil Service and Insurance. The two studies, including three chapters per each, also concluded that these new female teachers should be assigned for the rural areas because of the fact that rural areas are suffering from a severe shortage in the number of female teachers.