Achieving the goals of Education for All (EFA) has been a major concern of education in developing countries since 1990, but its realization does not seem to be easy. One of the major reasons that make realization of EFA difficult seems to be the limited access of girls to school education, especially in South Asia and Africa. Dakar Framework of Action 2000 also indicated that EFA goals could not be achieved without promotion of girls’ education. Researches have been made to identify factors affecting girls’ accessibility to schools, but most of them seem to have been focusing on the conditions of school education for girls identifying the factors such as the lack of schools for girls and the shortages of female teachers. To tackle with this problem, however, research should also be made from different aspects such as socio-cultural dimension of education. Noticing the very limited access of girls to school education as well as gender disparity in Pakistan, the survey was conducted in September 2005 to the parents in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan to identify social-cultural factors that might have affected on them. The results of the survey revealed that the levels of recognition on the importance of education of their daughters were generally low for both families sending their daughters to government schools and families not sending their daughters to any schools. Parents who have a conservative view of marriage for their children and parents who have limited access to the outside information had negative attitude to the education of their children. Both parents sending their daughters to government schools and parents not sending their daughters to any schools seem to have been influenced by the custom of female isolation “Purdah” on the education of their daughters.