Gender inequality in adult education: a comparative study of four adult learning systems

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2390688?needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2390688?needAccess=true</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2390688" target="_blank" >10.1080/2331186X.2024.2390688</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gender inequality in adult education: a comparative study of four adult learning systems
Original language description
This study explores gender-related inequality in participation in Adult Education and Training (AET) in four countries with vastly different adult learning systems and support measures for women's AET. Our examination of the data from an original international survey conducted in 2022 has found that the participation of men and women clearly differs among types of AET. Despite the frequently reported equal gender participation rates, the presented findings show that men participate more in job-related and employer-sponsored non-formal education (NFE), while women manage to develop more general skills in non-job-related and non-employer-sponsored NFE. Furthermore, our findings reveal that the primary reasons for participation in NFE are remarkably similar between men and women and, therefore, cannot be used as a source of explanation for different participation patterns. In addition, the extent of gender inequality in job-related and employer-sponsored NFE across countries exhibits minimal variation. All this implies that countries with vastly different adult learning systems currently display a degree of similarity in gender inequality regarding NFE, which could be determined more by characteristics of the labor market than the welfare regime.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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