STUDY OF THE RATE OF FEMALE HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS TO BASIC SIENCES IN FIRUZ ABAD, FARS, IRAN

In the resent years, the girls tendencies to academic studies has considerably increased
as the families’ educational levels growth, consequently the girl's scientific level and academic degrees
and mothers’ cultural levels has increased too. So researching in girls’ intrest in basic science is
reasonable due to the role of them in the growth of mental and functional utilites and economic,
cultural and social cases in general and families.
Methods and Materials: This research is done on 583 student randomy selected girls who are 14-32
Years old with 95% coefficient level and 5% error with questionnaire and measured their intrest in
Basic Sciences majors and others. The data was analaysed by SPSS software and chi-square tests
Results: Among 583 students, 28.47% are interested in medical majors, 26.59% in basic science,
19.38% in Humanities, 13.55% in Art and 12.01% haven’t any opinion. It is found that their selections
were based on their intrests than occuption and financial matters.
Conclusion: The result shows that at first girls are interested in medical majors, second in Basic
Sciences majors and third in engineering then others and this rate is increasing during the recent years.
Furthermore, the main points in selecting majors were interest then welfare and financial safty in
rether than intrest which is reasonable. This survery shows the extent of girls’ knowledge and attitude
toward the selection of their favourit majors. Also they discourage to choose Basic majors because of
lack of job opportunities, low incomes and far away universities.