Abstract: Women education is a distant factor that offers the possibility of reduction in maternal mortality while distance and transport issues in rural communities of Oyo State are highly significant factors affecting women’s access to health services, especially in emergency care. The descriptive survey research design was adopted. Purposive sampling technique was used to select nine out of the 18 identified rural local government areas (LGAs). Systematic random sampling technique was used to select 63 communities across the nine LGAs, while the simple random sampling techniques was used to select 2,200 women of child bearing age from the communities.