Socio Economic Factors Affecting Girls' Academic Achievement and Gender Based Violence in Higher Institution: A Study In Universities In SNNPR Ethiopia.

At the beginning of human history, the environment favoured and promoted equality of males and females. In the 21st century , knowledge plays the leading role and education is the central element that nations can use to maintain equality among society specially to insure gender equality. Thus this paper would attempt to identify the socio-economic factors affecting girl's academic achievement and gender based violence in higher institutions in case of SNNPR by selecting two university from first, one from second and two from third generation universities including Wolkite five universities will be included out of the total seven universities found in the region. The respondents are selected randomly from each university. The respondents included in this study are female students, gender office, instructors, student deans and registrar workers. The data would be collected using Focus group discussion, interview and questionnaires. To analyze the data logistic regression and Two limit Tobit model would be used. Even if there is some progressive trend, the girls academic achievement is low and their attrition rate is high. That is their mean achievement below the national average. From econometrics result it has been found that entrance exam result, parents income, personal related factors, peer pressure the major factors that substantially determines level of girls academic achievement. Similarly, though there are positive changes regarding gender based violence still significant portion of girls were vulnerable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]