For the development of any country the education is necessary. Education is the right of both genders male and female. In the different rural areas of Pakistan it is a red signal that people deprived their female from education. Layyah is the backward district of Punjab where the literacy rate is comfortable as compare to as a whole but in the rural areas of this district the female participation is very low. This research was conducted in the three union councils of district Layyah. This is quantitative research because it was an exploratory study. These UCs were selected through systematic random sampling. A sample size of 150 respondents was selected through systematic random sampling. District Layyah was selected as the universe for the present research. Another reason for selecting this city was the easily accessibility of collecting data from rural area. Parents of girls who were illiterate were selected as respondent for the present research. Interview schedule was used as the tool for data collection. The reason was that the mostly people showed non serious behavior towards questionnaire and majority of respondents were illiterate. Before the collection of actual data, it was required to test the accuracy the work ability of information .For this purpose the interview schedule was pre-test to 10 respondents on the basis of response the interview schedule was finalized after introducing some modification in interview schedule to make it more relevant and understandable. The data was present in tabulated form with the percentage was used for data representation and SPSS was used for data analysis.

The present quantitative study was conducted to explore the socio-economic factors affecting on the maternal health in the rural areas of District Layyah. The universe of the present study consisted of the all the fertile women those were able to reproduce. 150 women were selected from the rural areas of the research areas through systematic random sampling. Description of the data and analysis was done through SPSS. It was concluded that the early marriages, low level of education and income, unavailability of the maternal homes and general hospitals, far away of the hospitals, and the absence of doctors and gynecologists in the rural areas and the traditional methods of delivery cases are the major causes of the low level of maternal health in the rural areas of the study area. It was recommended that to improve the maternal health education and income level should be raised and awareness should be given in the study areas.