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Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers

Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2011.

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Other Authors: Carrim, Nasima M.H.
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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28294 Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers Carrim, Nasima M.H. vangarm@eskom.co.za Vangarajaloo, Manisha Parents views Indian parents Daughters studying UCTD Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2011. This study explores the willingness of Indian parents to allow their daughters to pursue tertiary education and careers. This study firstly focused on how women who pursued tertiary education and careers were perceived by family and the Indian community when parents were growing up. Secondly, the study underscored the willingness of parents these days to allow their daughters to pursue tertiary education and careers. A qualitative research approach, using in-depth, semi-structured life-story interviews was used in the study to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that resulted in the development of certain perceptions towards women who pursued tertiary education and careers in the parents’ youth. Content analysis was used to analyse the data. A pilot study using purposive and snowball sampling was conducted using seven (7) sets of Muslim and Hindu parents. Thereafter, further questions were generated for the main study, where thirteen (13) sets of both Muslim and Hindu parents were interviewed. The results of the study indicate that the attitude towards women pursuing tertiary education and careers has evolved over time. Parents are these days more willing to allow their daughters to pursue tertiary education and careers. In the past women had not been encouraged to study and work. However, this perception has changed today. There is a great demand for Indian women in the workplace and many Indian women are enrolling every year at different universities to pursue tertiary education. The South African laws support women empowerment and education and, as a whole, many contributions in the country are made by women. Human Resource Management unrestricted 2013-09-07T13:14:45Z 2012-10-01 2013-09-07T13:14:45Z 2012-09-07 2011 2012-09-29 Dissertation Vangarajaloo, M 2011, Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers, MCom dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28294 > C12/9/1/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28294 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09292012-140424/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle Parents views
Indian parents
Daughters studying
UCTD
Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers
title Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers
title_full Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers
title_fullStr Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers
title_short Factors influencing the willingness of South African Indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers
title_sort factors influencing the willingness of south african indian parents to consent to their daughters pursuing tertiary education and careers
topic Parents views
Indian parents
Daughters studying
UCTD
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28294
http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09292012-140424/